&#39;Friday Night Lights&#39; throws out the typical sports-movie playbook
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It has to be the most overworked formula in the movies: the one about the underdog small-town team going the distance against impossible odds.
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Movie-goers stuck with fish and football over puppets and prancers as "Shark Tale" and "Friday Night Lights" retained the top two box-office spots for another weekend.
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I hope your Thanksgiving dinner was more enjoyable than the two NFL games I was forced to watch. Three of the worst teams in the NFL struggled on national television and the entire country had to witness their substandard play.
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Enough of the Bowl Championship Series. Enough of coaches sounding like Oliver Stone scripting his latest movie project.
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&quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; written by HG Bissinger, chronicles the 1988 season of the Odessa Permian High School football team.
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Yes, there are cliched figures. Yes, if Billy Bob Thornton says &quot;Let&#39;s go&quot; one more time, you may want to scream. Yet, &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; may be the best football film ever made.
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A high school without sports teams? Friday Night Lights Out? It's what Larry David would call a whole bowl of wrong.
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By now, most of us can agree that ABC&#39;s &quot;Monday Night Football&quot; opening was lasciviously over-the-top, a crass effort at cross-promotion and titillation.
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The NFL PG-13, which has shown almost as many shots of jiggling cheerleaders as it has of jiggling offensive linemen, is aghast at ABC&#39;s trashy intro to &quot;Monday Night Football,&quot; which involved Nicolette Sheridan, a dropped towel, Terrell Owens and a
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&quot;Friday Night Lights,&quot; directed by Peter Berg (&quot;The Rundown&quot; and &quot;Very Bad Things&quot;), is packed with intense moments, riveting scenes, and talented actors to back them up.
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Though the sports-themed Friday Night Lights failed to dislodge Shark Tale from the top, the critically acclaimed drama grabbed a healthy $20.
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The message in âFriday Night Lightsâ doesn&#39;t just apply to the sport of football. And you don&#39;t need to love football or be able to tell the difference between a wide receiver and a running back to understand
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Leave it to the NFL to reward NBC for buying into Sunday night by giving it an opener with a twist. Spend a few billion dollars and you, too, can make a family squirm.
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The movie is too sanitized and not on par with the book. It ignores much for the sake of a PG-13 rating. The book &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; still stirs up anger in Odessa, Texas, for tackling the themes of racism and winning-is-everything.
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To call &quot;Friday Night Lights&quot; the best football movie ever made is not really that risky: While &quot;North Dallas Forty,&quot; &quot;Any Given Sunday&quot; and &quot;The Longest Yard&quot; have their champions, they are
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For most of us these days, football is nothing more than a TV show, a snappy montage of familiar uniforms, highlight plays and stat lines.
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The cliches of the endless  stream of inspiration sports dramas in recent years would seem  ripe for sending up, but the misbegotten "The Comebacks"  fumbles the ball badly.