Friday Night Lights (2004)
Peter Berg’s film about a high school football team that lights up life in Odessa, Texas is a staggering, emotional story, immaculately shot, that captures why people love football — and how crushing the game can be, in every sense. It benefits a lot from a pulsing soundtrack that includes Explosions in the Sky and Public Enemy.
It’s based on the nonfiction book by Buzz Bizzinger, which also, of course, inspired the excellent TV series of the same name. (And if you like Friday Night Lights, you might also like Berg’s latest project, the fact-based opioid epidemic drama Painkiller.
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