Review | The Blind Side
Credit: 2009 Alcon Film Fund
OPENS: Friday 11/20
Sandra Bullock shows a new sense of maturity and confidence in this uplifting heart-tugger that's based on real events. She plays Leigh Anne Tuohy, a wealthy Memphis, Tennessee, interior decorator and mother of two who adopts a homeless high-schooler, Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), when he enrolls at her kids' parochial school. Along with her supportive husband, Sean (a lovely — and unrecognizable! -- Tim McGraw), she nurtures the gentle giant from the wrong side of town all the way to an Ole Miss football scholarship and the NFL. Bullock's churchloving, hardworking, cashmere-wearing heroine exemplifies the idea that charity begins at home — and the actress comes across as a real, passionate, take-noprisoners woman. While the drama’s script is a little formulaic (yes, Oher helps his team win the big game and, yes, joining the Tuohy family helps him get his life together), its message still inspires.
-- THELMA ADAMS
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3i cant wait to see the movie i think that it will be awsome
Stweart - Where are you from? That's reality in SOME cases. Bravo to the writers and actors for blatantly spelling it out without trying to make a joke out of it like many comedians. Plus it's a true story, a lovely one that may make people think differently about others in their communities.
More than formulaic, it sounds racist. The same old over-emphasis on African-Americans as star athletics and Whites as the generous helping hand of our underprivileged.