Friday Night Lights – Touchdown am Freitag (2004)

Friday Night Lights – Touchdown am Freitag: Directed by Peter Berg. With Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke. Based on H.G. Bissinger’s book, which profiled the economically depressed town of Odessa, Texas and their heroic high school football team, The Permian High Panthers.

“This is the most human sports movie Iu0026#39;ve ever seen. Most sports movies follow a very basic formula of being either inspirational or comedic. Some try to be dramatic, but most fail because unless a person is playing a sport they often donu0026#39;t feel the tension, the struggle, the pain, or the elation. Where most others fail, Friday Night Lights soars.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePeter Berg does a wonderful job using the shaky-cam technique to create a documentary type of feel to the movie. We see the characters in their daily lives as if we are walking side by side with them. This is especially effective considering the plight many of those people feel. They all want to escape. Through football they can. Berg captures this. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting is extremely balanced. Even Tim McGraw surprises. Derek Luke is exceptional tackling(no pun intended) a tragic superstar. Everyone shines.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor anyone who loves sports and remembers when nothing else mattered when you played, this is a beautiful parallel.”