Friday Night Lights
7.2
“Hope comes alive on Friday nights.”
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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Cast
83 people
Billy Bob Thornton
Coach Gary Gaines
Known for
Armageddon
Bad Santa
Lucas Black
Mike Winchell
Known for
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Legion
Garrett Hedlund
Don Billingsley
Known for
TRON: Legacy
Tulsa King
Derek Luke
Boobie Miles
Known for
13 Reasons Why
The Purge
Jay Hernandez
Brian Chavez
Known for
Hostel
Suicide Squad
Lee Jackson
Ivory Christian
Lee Thompson Young
Chris Comer
Known for
Rizzoli & Isles
FlashForward
Tim McGraw
Charles Billingsley
Known for
The Blind Side
1883
Grover Coulson
L.V. Miles
Known for
A Ghost Story
Landman
Connie Britton
Sharon Gaines
Known for
The White Lotus
Zero Day
Connie Cooper
Mrs. Winchell
Also in
A Perfect World
The Sighting
Kasey Stevens
Flippy
Also in
D.E.B.S.
Stop-Loss
Peter Berg Director · David Aaron Cohen Screenplay Buzz Bissinger Author
Worldwide gross $61M · Budget $30M · United States release October 8, 2004
Box office
Budget
$30,000,000
Worldwide gross
$61,255,921
Gross vs. budget
2.0×
Production
Imagine Entertainment
Production
Friday Night Lights
Production
MDBF Filmgesellschaft mbH & Company KG
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 8, 2004
Theatrical
Australia
March 10, 2005 · Theatrical
Brazil
December 17, 2004 · Theatrical
Czechia
September 19, 2005 · Theatrical
France
January 18, 2005 · Physical
Germany
July 7, 2005 · Theatrical
Hungary
August 30, 2005 · Digital
Ireland
May 13, 2005 · Digital
Japan
May 14, 2005 · Digital
Netherlands
April 16, 2005 · Theatrical
July 21, 2005 · Physical · DVD
February 7, 2010 · TV · RTL 8
Portugal
April 16, 2016 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
May 13, 2005 · Theatrical
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