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Friday Night Lights
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73/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1762
- IMDb #1762
- Rotten Tomatoes #1246
- Metacritic #1552
- Letterboxd #1871
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1841
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1096
- Metacritic Critics #1460
- Metacritic Audience #1800
- Criticker #1463
- Kinopoisk #1596
- AlloCiné #1685
- Trakt #1880
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See the most agreed on films →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.
Details
- Director
- Peter Berg
- Writers
- David Aaron Cohen, Peter Berg
- Based on
- Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger
- Studio
- Imagine Entertainment, Friday Night Lights, MDBF Filmgesellschaft mbH & Company KG, Universal Pictures
- Released
- 8 October 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $61.3M
- Awards
- 1 win, 1 nomination
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 win from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Best Sports Movie ESPY Award 2005 | Best Sports Movie ESPY Award | Peter Berg | Winner |
| Teen Choice Award 2005 | Choice Movie - Drama | Nominee |
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| Choice Movie - Drama | Nominee |