• Friday, October 08, 2004

• Country:

  USA

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  118 min

(2004)

Goofs

• Anachronisms: During one shot of the scoreboards, an advertisement for Bank of America is shown. The logo featured was not in use in the 1980's.
• Anachronisms: The artificial turf used in the scenes at Permian high was not in use in 1988. Fieldturf, a surface which uses a mixture of sand and ground rubber, wasn't in use until 2001.
• Anachronisms: Toward the beginning of the movie, a Dodge Durango is seen parked on the street in Odessa. This movie is set in 1988; Dodge did not begin making the Durango until 1997.
• Anachronisms: Numerous players in the movie were seen wearing Under Armour accessories. Under Armour did not appear until 1997.
• Continuity: In the first half of the state championship game, quarterback Winchell is seen being tackled with a large bloodstain on his jersey, and in subsequent shots the stain is removed. He later gets the injury that results in the stain during the last play of the first half.
• Factual errors: "Boobie" is on his front porch watching the trash being picked up, Odessa has alleys and dumpsters for trash pickup, not curbside pickup.
• Anachronisms: During scene, the camera shows the parking lot. The first 10 or 15 rows of cars in the WalMart parking lot are 80's cars, but there's a white 2000's model Suburban along with other modern cars behind them.
• Continuity: When Boobie gets hurt, we see a close up of his knee and hear a crack. The knee we see is his right knee. In later shots, it is his left knee that is hurt.
• Anachronisms: At the first football game (against Marshall), the logo on the bass drum in the marching band is from the 2004 Rose Parade - you can make out the date and city on the bottom of the drum.
• Anachronisms: In the games against Abilene and Abilene Cooper, the scoreboard in Shotwell Stadium shows an ad for Ambassador Suites, however, in 1988 it was Embassy Suites.

Taglines

• Hope comes alive
• Hope comes alive on Friday nights

Trivia

• To gather research, producers visited real high school football games in Texas during the fall of 2003.
• Frustrated with the authenticity of some actors playing assistant coaches, director Peter Berg turned to actual Permian High School coaches to deliver some lines during game sequences.
• Buzz Bissinger, who wrote the book on which the movie is based, and director and co-writer Peter Berg are cousins.
• Neither Derek Luke nor Lee Thompson Young had ever played football before.
• There are only two title cards at the beginning of the movie. The first is "The following story is based on the 1988 West Texas football season." The second is the movie title. The cast and crew are not shown until the end of the movie.
• Richard Linklater was attached to this project before 'Peter Berg' but it was scraped due to budget difficulties.
• Alan J. Pakula was originally set to direct this film before his death.
• At the end of the movie where Permian is trying to score right before the last play you can see director 'Peter Berg' jumping up and down in the stands.
• Live-action game sequences from the 2003 Permian High School football season are interspersed throughout the film. Director Peter Berg matched the uniforms and on-field jersey numbers for acted sequences so that the live clips would blend. Game sequences were shot on location at Ratliff Stadium in Odessa and the Astrodome in Houston.
• Texan experimental post-rock band Explosions in the Sky scored the movie. The producer used small pieces of older songs by Explosions in the Sky as placeholders, but eventually grew so fond of the pieces that he licensed them along with the original score produced by the band.

Quotes

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Awards

1. MTV Movie Award
   Event: MTV Movie Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Breakthrough Male
   Recipient(s): Tim McGraw
2. Teen Choice Award
   Event: Teen Choice Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Choice Movie: Drama
   Recipient(s):