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Friday Night Lights details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Tim McGraw, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke, Billy Bob Thorton |
| Director: | Peter Berg |
| Genres: | Drama - General, Sport - General |
| Studio: | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK VIDEO RENTAL |
| Name | Discs | |
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Friday Night Lights |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 58 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 05 Sep 2005 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | French |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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By Tom Charity from LOVEFiLMBased on H.G. Bissinger's book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.
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Excellent movie
By a customer from London, England , 16 May 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Great movie, basically a coach takes over the local highschool american football team. The poor town is obsessed with the team and it is all about the kids and the coach trying to overcome the local pressure. Really gets you involved in the characters, ending is great.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(67)TV show is better
By a customer , 28 Sep 2012Good but the TV show is better. The film is darker than the film and you don't feel the depth you get in the TV show, but I guess without the film, the TV show would never have happened. Get the TV box set.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Friendship, Failure, Success and Football
By Kochegarova (16 reviews) from Hertfordshire , 04 May 2011Great film, well acted and directed. Many reviews seem misled or misguided, sport is the backdrop upon which the movie is set, not the point to the movie. The sport of Gridiron is used as it incorporates such a variation of people to come together as one in common purpose. Friends, family, expectations and the worries and pressures put upon our young and ourselves, to what end?, define success, define failure, is the premise and done so beautifully. If you enjoy this movie do not hesitate in watching the series of Friday Night Lights, it's not a cheap spin off, it is also a beautifully crafted, acted and directed piece of screenplay, all 5 series.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Plodding Americana
By cptrelentless (33 reviews) from London , 29 Apr 2010Filmed for the Cops generation, steady-cam wobbly-cam shots attempt to visually insert drama into wooden, unappealing rote acting. Clearly the director decided not to bother with making his actors work. Try putting aside the inherent homo-eroticism of American football, where fashion-conscious (there's a bit about the right sort of shoes, where our red-necked, down home protagonist colours his white addidas into nike black to fit in with our home-boy yet non-threateningly middle class black player, a bit like fame, or the breakfast club or any of the other fruity misfit films of the 80s) and strangely sculptured, statuesque physiques (cut, acutely defined pecs on a man who supposedly barges violently into his opponents for the half of the match that his side plays, given that they have different teams for offensive and defensive plays, hence why some of them are shirt number 77. Why is he not a bulky, hardened sumo? Why can't they play for more than 10 minutes without a stoppage? Where are the big, fat b'stards with skew noses and tattoos?). There's a lot of the film with them rubbing up against each other in tight shorts, grappling manly, yet being effete and in touch with each other's emotions, obviously like Genghis or Hitler were just before their big fights. And their righteous place as a 'man' in this hell-forsaken world is their journey to success. The cliches are thick and fast, primed for moronic yanks who have ADHD and rickets.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good film, but a lil' confused on the epic story?
By Li4mC (53 reviews) from Buckingham, England , 09 Apr 2010This film i thought was very good, directed well and the story was told well. The only bit i didnt quite understand was i got the feeling there was meant to be like some epic story and there wasnt.
SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED:
Remeber The Titans,
Gridiron Gang,
The Express.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Wasted Time
By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 26 Feb 2010I don't know what possessed me to watch this film, although it got good write ups in the film books, and I can only think that the reviewers were American. Now I have nothing against the good ole USA, it's just that the game they call American 'foot'ball sems to have nothing to do with their feet, which the players appear only to use to run on, admittedly quite fast, until they collide with an opposing player. Ratther like rugby in fact, although the Americans wear helmets so that you can't tell who's who, as well as big shoulder pads to make them look bigger. This is a film about 17 year old boys representing their Texas college and inevitably going a long way in their competition to be the best, but as far as I can make out the average age of the actors was about twenty four, as you can tell from their rather more mature bodies and facial shadow. It's from a renowned book by HG Bissinger, and the whole thing is pure American macho fiction, with sentimental undertones. Two hours wasted for me I'm afraid.- Was this review helpful to you?
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