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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
March 7, 2014  | By David Bianculli

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Before the TV series, there was the book. After the book, and before the TV series, there was the movie – and this is it. In 2004, Billy Bob Thornton played the dynamic, quietly noble coach of a Texas high school team, the part that, on TV, eventually won Kyle Chandler a well-deserved Emmy. And who, in this movie, plays the part of the coach’s wife, portrayed so superbly on NBC’s Friday Night Lights by Connie Britton? Why, it’s… Connie Britton!

 
 
 
 
 
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