First Look: Friday Night Lights
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Distributor: Universal Pictures
Director: Peter Berg
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke,
Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Lee Thompson Young,
Connie Britton, Lee Jackson
Synopsis: From Oscar®-winning producer
Brian Grazer and Imagine Entertainment and based on the best-selling
book about high school football by H.G. Bissinger, Friday Night
Lights chronicles the entire 1988 season of the Permian High Panthers
of Odessa, Texas, with football players, coaches, mothers, fathers,
pastors, boosters, fans and families struggling with ongoing personal
conflicts while the team fights for a state championship. A town
for sale, Odessa, Texas has seen better days--the financial bust
evident in its boarded-up shops and broken lives. Yet one hope
sustains the community where, once a week during the fall, the
town and its dreams come alive beneath the dazzling and disorienting
Friday night lights...when the Permian High Panthers take to the
field. In a city where economic uncertainty has eroded the spirit
of its inhabitants, nearly everyone seeks comfort in the religion
of the Friday night ritual, where the unfulfilled dreams of an
entire community are shifted onto the shoulder pads of a team
of high-school athletes. Friday Night Lights captures the frenzy
of a small town that reveres its school team and their weekly
games. With Odessa standing in for places just like it all across
America, the film provides an illuminating look at the hoped-for
successes and the built-in failures of trying to live the American
Dream through the efforts of a group of talented young men.
Opening Date: Fall 2004
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