Friday night lights

Resource Information

The work Friday night lights represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Normal Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Friday night lights

Statement of responsibility

directed by Peter Berg ; screenplay by David Aaron Cohen and Peter Berg ; Friday Night Lights, LLC. ; produced by Brian Grazer ; a Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment presentation

Creator

• Friday night lights (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Imagine Entertainment (Firm)
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Berg, Peter, 1964-
• Bissinger, Buzz, 1954-
• Black, Lucas, 1982-
• Cohen, David Aaron
• Grazer, Brian, 1953-
• Hedlund, Garrett, 1985-
• Hernandez, Jay, 1978-
• Luke, Derek, 1974-
• McGraw, Tim
• Reitzell, Brian
• Schliessler, Tobias
• Thornton, Billy Bob
• Torn, David
• Explosions in the Sky (Musical group)

Subject

• Entrenamiento atlético -- Texas | Odessa -- Teatro
• Feature films
• Football -- Drama
• Football coaches -- Drama
• Fútbol american -- Texas | Odessa -- Teatro
• Odessa (Tex.) -- Drama
• Permian High School (Odessa, Tex.) -- Drama
• School sports -- Drama
• Sports -- Feature
• Sports films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Feature films
• Sports
• Sports films
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Drama

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Takes place in Odessa, a socially and racially divided and economically troubled oil town in the western part of Texas, where high school football is the thing that brings all the people together. Follows Coach Gary Gaines and the Permian High School Panthers through the 1988 season as they work hard to extend Permian's winning record. Shows the players struggling with typical adolescent issues and the lack of future opportunities in their town as well at the overwhelming pressure of the town's expectations

Member of

• qEnglish English | qDVD DVD

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Tobias A. Schliessler ; art director, Peter Borck ; editors, David Rosenbloom, Colby Parker, Jr. ; music producer, Brian Reitzell ; music, Explosions in the Sky, David Torn ; costume designer, Susan Matheson ; production designer, Sharon Seymour ; visual effects producer, Lisa Goldberg

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic issues, sexual content, language, some teen drinking, and rough sports action

Language note

English (Dolby digital 5.1), French (Dolby digital 2.0) or Spanish (Dolby digital 2.0) soundtracks; optional English captions or French or Spanish subtitles

PerformerNote

Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw, Lee Jackson, Lee Thompson Young, Grover Coulson

Runtime

118

Target audience

general

Technique

live action