In order to make their town a good one and overcome all the obstacles and challenges they have, according to racial discrimination and economic depression they suffer from, a football coach, does his best and struggles against winning the football national champion, the thing that will lead to a great changes.
Friday Night Lights is a feel-good movie, but it's not real. It's a hard-hitting Hallmark greeting card. It's no wonder it appealed to Larry King %u2014 it's safe, easy, conventional, and feigns incisiveness.
Friday Night Lights is the real deal, a grim, in-your-face expose of one West Texas school's fanatical sports program.
Window to the Movies
October 30, 2009
What Friday Night Lights offers is the perspective that, for the people and young players caught up in this whirlwind, football simultaneously means everything and ultimately nothing.
The script spends at least as much time exploring the psychologies of the young players and the problems they face at home as it does rallying the audience behind their efforts on the field.
Common Sense Media
December 24, 2010
So much more than a football movie.
Newsweek
November 01, 2007
Few films have shown so powerfully the slashing double edge of sports fever.