The Blind Side
Based on the true story of Michael 'Big Mike' Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
12 September 1985, Douglasville, Georgia, USA
31 October 1951, Fairmont, West Virginia, USA
9 June 1973, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 June 1965, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
29 June 1971, New York, USA
15 July 1987, Napa, California, USA
28 June 1948, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
January 24, 2014
The movie is very familiar -- you've seen it all before -- but it succeeds at achieving its modest goals.
July 21, 2012
Serves its purpose by making the audience tear up in some moments and cheer in others. It's a total button-pusher, but it does so in a very good way.
March 25, 2010
Quite how Sandra Bullock deserved an Oscar for her one-note turn as bleached supermum Leigh-Anne is a mystery, since it transforms a potentially worthwhile character study into a grandstanding star vehicle.
July 05, 2011
A living tribute to fundamental Christian motivations, although the point is hammered home with an extraordinarily soft touch: Love thy neighbor.
November 24, 2009
However obvious, The Blind Side is touching -- despite its habit of dropping major character notes into the melody without warning.
January 24, 2014
As a fable about the power of giving, it hits pretty hard.
November 24, 2009
Oherâ(TM)s life is meant to make us feel good, and it mostly does. But how good we feel about his story is proportional to how blind weâ(TM)re willing to be about how itâ(TM)s told.
November 24, 2009
Its superficiality keeps it from being the moving story it could have been.
August 02, 2012
It's certainly a heartwarming tale and Bullock delivers a big, ballsy performance as the indomitable Tuohy - but Oscar-worthy? What were they thinking?
April 04, 2011
You're going to be crying by the end.
January 24, 2014
The movie is done with crispness, vigor, down-home humor, and an over-all tang of good feeling, but the pushing of buttons is the work of extraordinary calculation.
September 30, 2011
Football may the thread that runs throughout, but the movie is much more interested in the tale of how Oher left behind a life of poverty, violence and foster-home despair to become a champ on the gridiron.
