Friday Night Lights: the movie

If you want to know what it is like to live in west Texas and eastern New Mexico, see this film. It will definitely take you there. If you want to know what it's like to play high school football in west Texas or eastern New Mexico, you will learn from this film. Though the movie is set in 1988, it could easily be set anytime in the last 30 or 40 years. Football, that area of the country and the life there does not change that much.
It is an unusual movie in that there are several good guys and several bad guys, not just one of each. There also are several bad girls and several good girls, though not as many as guys.
Rating, four stars, four being high: ***