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Certificate 12

Cast Billy Bob Thornton Lucas Black Garrett Hedlund Derek Luke

Directors Peter Berg

Screenwriters David Aaron Cohen

Running Time 117 minutes

Friday Night Lights
Billy Bob Thornton leads in this sports movie that's not about sport

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Plot
Based on a real-life story and book, Friday Night Lights follows the dramatic 1988 season of high school American football team the Permian Panthers, led by noble-minded head coach Gary Gaines (Thornton). This is a season that will come to enfold all the hopes, brutal realities and personal tragedies of a hardscrabble town called Odessa, lost among the desiccated plains of Texas.

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