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Sandra Bullock
Kathy Bates
Tim McGraw
Ray McKinnon
Quinton Aaron
Ashley LeConte Campbell

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Based on the true story of Michael Oher, an overlooked young African-American who was taken in by the Touhys who provide him an education and groom his natural talents in football. -- Chris aka Tarkin

04/26/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Pure Awesomeness

This was such a great movie. I thought Bullock did an excellent job. This was a very inspirational story that pretty much has you hooked from the beginning. There are some nitpicky things about the film which is why it couldn't get the full four stars. First, we don't really know anything about the Touhys, except, that they are obviously humanitarians. Also, the progression of time is really awkward. You see this tight family bond develop, but as far as we know he's only known them for two weeks. As good as this movie makes you feel, I do wonder how much of it is pure Hollywood. Again, as a whole, this was definitely an really good movie that can be watched over and over again. Bullock definitely deserved the Oscar, maybe not so much because she was the absolute best, but for her career, ...

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3.5/4 

04/23/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Deserved the Oscar over Hurt Locker!! Definitely!

The Blind Side is a film about Michael Oher and his inspirational journey in overcoming adversity, turmoil and an uncertain future. I am not that big on writing reviews of movies such as the feel good sports one this one is because they all end the same, but for some reason this movie struck a different cord in me. The reason was because the movie focused more on the path to him achieving greatness then just him being good at football. It showed him rise above his GPA of .06 to succeeding to the Dean's list in college. Being a strtuggling college student once myself I can say that in just doing that there should have been enough to have a movie after him, not including the broke past of a drug addicted mother and gang affiliated friends that was leading him towards the short lived life ...

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4/4 

04/09/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Time To Thank Me

I really did enjoy this movie. I think that Sandra Bullock did a wonderful job, but possibly not the Best Actress of the Year. I thought she did an amazing job and she is such a down-to-earth woman, I think she deserved her accolades. As a film, each actor pulled their metaphorical weight and built together a fine foundation in which to tell a story of a truly unique and wonderful woman and the young man who was a true inspiration.

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3.5/4 

03/27/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Meh

This movie gets an extra star for being based off a true story. The movie itself is predictable and cliche as are the characters and I question how much of it was true to life, especially with the exuberant younger son training the gigantic football player. While I do agree that Sandras acting was great in this they don't really develop her character enough. This is more a tall of a snipit of time for these people and your left without really knowing much about them, or why they do the things they do. If this movie hadn't been based on real events it's just about as cliche as they come, poor black boy gets a chance encounter with a rich white family and changes himself, and the white family for the better.

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2.5/4