Friday Night Lights

Rating: 10/10 (8 June 2005)

This is an excellent movie that shows the 1988 Permian-Odessa football team. It shows how the team is pressured by the whole town to get the 6th state championship for their town. The town pressures the kids to win because they think that it is the only thing that will help them in life and to give them glory for what they think are the best years of their life. The movie takes you through the ups and downs of the football team from losing Boobie Miles and making it to state. The character are Mike Winchell(played by Lucas Black) who is the quarterback on the football team. He has to balance helping his mother with her mental illness and playing football. Don Billingsley(played by Garrett Hedlund) who is pressured to win the state championship by his abusive father who was a local legend that won the state championship when he was in high school. Brian Chavez who only plays football for fun unlike most of the others who are using football for a way out of the town Odessa, Brian gets good grades and wants to go to an ivy league school. Boobie Miles who is a great football player and is getting letters from every school you can think of, until he hurts his knee and lies to the coach to play which makes him ruin his knee so he can't play football again. Chris Comer who is a 3rd string running back that is so used to being on the bench that when he was supposed to go in he couldn't find his helmet. And Ivory Christian who is a great football player that plays his best when he is mad.