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Friday Night Lights

2004 · 118 min

A gritty, heartfelt look at small-town pressure and young dreams, where every game feels like life or death.

Tagline: Hope comes alive on Friday nights.
Overview: A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.

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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
family
class
race
redemption
Places: small town
school
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: true story
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	6
Horror	1
Humour	3
Realism	9
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Peter Berg
Written by: David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lee Jackson, Lee Thompson Young, Tim McGraw
Music: Brian Reitzell, David Torn
Cinematography: Tobias A. Schliessler
Runtime: 118 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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