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Friday Night Lights (2004)
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The Texas town's faith in its high-school team makes a teenage mistake feel like a public failure. Training and match play matter because the players have so little distance from the hopes attached to them. Peter Berg's adaptation of a nonfiction book is the pressure-filled option, with injury and fragile prospects complicating the usual promise that effort will be rewarded.
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About Friday Night Lights
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.