Film based on the book: Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dream / by H.G. Bissinger.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2004.

Special features of this DVD: widescreen presentation ; audio commentary track with director and writer ; deleted scenes ; Tim McGraw: off the stage (featurette) ; player cam ; The story of the 1988 Permian Panthers (featurette) ; Dolby Digital ; scene selection.

Director of photography, Tobias A. Schliessler ; art director, Peter Borck ; editors, David Rosenbloom, Colby Parker, Jr. ; music producer, Brian Reitzell ; music, Explosions in the Sky, David Torn ; costume designer, Susan Matheson ; production designer, Sharon Seymour ; visual effects producer, Lisa Goldberg.

Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black, Garrett Hedlund, Tim McGraw, Lee Jackson, Lee Thompson Young, Grover Coulson.

Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who believes that "Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down", is somehow able to help the team rise up from the ashes and make a huge season comeback. Now on their way to state, the Panthers must go out and be perfect, because they may never matter this much for the rest of their lives.

MPAA rating: PG-13.

DVD.