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Friday Night Lights

Name: Friday Night Lights
Released: 2004
Duration: 1 h 58 min
Rating: 70

70 Metascore
2004
1 hr 58 mins
Drama
PG13

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From one of the best sports books ever written comes a compelling, fact-based chronicle of a high-school football team in West Texas. There, winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. Billy Bob Thornton stars as the coach, and country-music star Tim McGraw plays the abusive father of a player. The film was directed and co-written by Peter Berg, who adapted his cousin H.G. Bissinger's bestseller.

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Billy Bob Thornton

Coach Gaines

Lucas Black

Mike Winchell

Garrett Hedlund

Don Billingsley

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