Friday Night Lights

Movie · 2004

This gritty, PG-13 sports drama follows a Texas high school football team chasing a state championship under enormous community pressure. It earns its rating with heavy language, teen drinking, brief sexual content, graphic on-field injuries, and a subplot involving a father who is physically and verbally abusive to his son.

Best suited for teens 14 and up who can handle emotionally intense, realistic drama about pressure, identity, and family struggle.

Peril & tensionViolenceLoss & griefBig emotionsLanguageBehavior modeledLoud or startling soundsFlashing lightsRomance & innuendoDrinking, drugs & smokingOld-school gender rolesRacial & cultural stereotypes

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Violenceearly in the filmModerate

Star player Boobie Miles suffers a serious knee injury on the field with an audible crunch; he is shown writhing in pain and later attempts a comeback that results in a second injury.

Violencemultiple scenes throughout the filmModerate

Don Billingsley's father throws him to the ground twice and punches him in the head across several scenes; another scene depicts the father duct-taping a football to his son's hands while berating him.

Drinking, drugs & smokingthe party scene, early-to-mid filmModerate

A large teen party shows underage drinking including beer being funneled; one teen sneaks alcohol into his drink; an adult character's alcoholism is also on display.

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