What is Friday Night Lights (movie)?
{{italictitle}} '''''Friday Night Lights''''' is a 2004 American [[Sports film|sports]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] movie co-written and directed by [[Peter Berg]]. The movie is about the coach and players of a [[high school football]] team in [[Odessa, Texas]]. The movie is based on the book ''[[Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream]]'' (1990) by [[H. G. Bissinger]]. The movie stars [[Billy Bob Thornton]] as Coach Gary Gaines. [[Tim McGraw]] and [[Amber Heard]] also star in this movie. A [[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|television series of the same name]] came out on October 3, 2006 on [[NBC]]. It is seen as one of the best high school movies ever made.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 14, 2021 |title=50 Best High School Movies |work=[[EW.com]] |url=https://ew.com/gallery/50-best-high-school-movies-0/ |access-date=March 10, 2022}}</ref><ref>[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/friday-night-lights-2004 Friday Night Lights] - October 08, 2004.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{movie-stub}} [[Category:2004 drama movies]] [[Category:American sports drama movies]] [[Category:Movies based on books]] [[Category:Movies adapted into television series]] [[Category:Movies directed by Peter Berg]] [[Category:Movies set in Texas]] [[Category:Movies set in the 1980s]] [[Category:Universal Pictures movies]]