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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Friday Night Lights (2004)





Football Movie #2 (Please click the links to read my reviews of North Dallas Forty, Semi-Tough, The Longest Yard, The Program, and Any Given Sunday)

Synopsis: Depressed Texas town takes high school football waaaaaay too seriously.

Blurb From the VHS Jacket: “A genuine stand-up-and-cheer movie about a courageous high school football team’s fight to fulfill their destiny and live their dream, Friday Night Lights is ‘unforgettable and real!’ (Larry King).”

What Did I Learn?: In some Texas communities, the football coach earns more than the principal to whom he reports.


Really?: No matter how upset a drunk, middle-aged man might get with his son, I had a hard time believing he would ever throw his cherished State Championship ring out the window of a moving car.  

Rating: Friday Night Lights is an excellent film, and well worth viewing even if you aren’t a gridiron fan (and I’m certainly not); the movie makes the viewer genuinely care about the coach (Billy Bob Thornton) and his players, even though it never glamorizes football or glosses over the brutality and unfairness of the game. Friday Night Lights is packed with great performances – Thornton’s advice about making the most out of the short end of the stick will stay with me for a long time. Highly Recommended. 10/10 stars.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390022/?ref_=sr_2

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