Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who ... (Full plot summary below)
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Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who believes that "Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down", is somehow able to help the team rise up from the ashes and make a huge season comeback. Now on their way to state, the Panthers must go out and be perfect, because they may never matter this much for the rest of their lives.
Leave your thoughts about Friday Night Lights.
| Empire MagazineIan NathanThe best sports movie for years, as it's not about sport at all. Forget fears of jingoistic grandstanding, this is an un-American all-American tale that deserves attention. |
| Chicago TribuneAllison BenediktThere isn't a bad performance here, but besides Thornton, Luke stands out. |
| CNN.comPaul Clinton (CNN.com)Lights feels real, honest and -- most of all -- heartfelt, and it's filled with good performances and a fine spirit. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongContains just the right mix of grunting, cheerleading and backbiting, of failure and success, of broken dreams and great expectations. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe film goes for a grainy, fast-cut, documentary look that is both a blessing and a curse. |
| Film BlatherEugene NovikovProfoundly upsetting and pointed in its criticism, it's concerned not just with football, but with the people who play it and the people it affects. |
| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressThis is flat-out the rawest, most realistic piece of storytelling about the sport that I've ever seen. |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfLights only diverts narrative tedium when the gladiators take the field; effectively drowning out the nonsense that eventually takes place off the field. |
| FilmStew.comTodd GilchristBlack is positively riveting to watch; who would have expected the gangly kid who befriended Carl Childers in Sling Blade to now be muscling his mentor out of the picture? |
| Internet ReviewsSteve Rhodes... had me literally in goose bumps and with my heart going into overdrive. |
