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Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

People take this game way to seriously. Do not teach your kids these values it will only screw them up later in life. But then again this is "Texas".

I did a high-school sort of chick-flick marathon; watching movies like "Mean Girls" and "Grease", when I ran out of cliché movies on girls with trouble at school. I started searching the web for other movies with "high school" as an important theme and crossed paths with this movie. I read the summary and thought that it wasn't going to be a movie I liked, nor a movie that would fit my high-school marathon. But hell, I watched it anyways. And loved it! It is not a regular sports movie, nor anything like the high-school movies I was watching. It was rough, exciting and most importantly very real. The recognition with the characters and their problems, as well as the fact that it is a autobiographical work, made it an incredibly touching movie. It's the story of a Texan Amercian football team that is fighting to become state champion, not only on the field, as well as with themselves. It just doesn't all go as easy and smooth as planned. Don't expect anything feel-good, or warm and cozy for your sweet little soul. I cried my heart out for over an hour of the complete movie. The last time I cried that bad with a movie was with "The Bridge to Terabithia" (also wonderful, very different from this one). I surely recommend everyone to watch this. Just take a box of tissues.

Based on Bissinger's book, Odessa is a small dusty town in Texas. There is only one thing that is important to the people of this town. It's their high school football team winning State. Coach Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) is new to the team. The pressure is unbearable. In the last moments of the first game, their star running back Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) gets severely injured. The team struggles without him.This is a movie where there is a real sense of place. The characters are realistic. They are aggressively realistic. There are no easy saints. The kids all struggle. Tim McGraw plays a drunken father. Amber Heard has a small debut part as a sexualized teen. Lucas Black is wonderful as the stoic quarterback trying to take care of his mother. It is modern day poetry.

Friday Night Lights is in my opinion the best football movie ever put on film. It has a realistic feel to it for anyone who's played high school football. It's especially realistic in the way in how it portrays how much high school football means to small towns in states like Texas. Everything about this movie rings true if you've been involved in the same circumstances.It has a great cast headed by Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Tim McGraw and Connie Britton.All the football game action looks like you're watching real game footage from a high school football game. If you're a football fan, heck a movie fan in general I highly recommend this movie.