The Blind Side Review

Do you think that movie makers finally realized that they have been making some craptastic movies lately, and so now they are pushing out good one's?

We have another gem here folks! Now yes this movie won a lot of awards, and Sandra Bullock did deserve the awards she got. But nowadays that isn't saying much just because a movie wins something.

This movie was great. This is not a crying movie, but a feel good movie. It is awesome. If only more people were like this! I would have liked to see more about Michael's brother or other siblings. But really this movie did not seem to be lacking anything. This movie is very well put together. I will explain a little about the movie the best I can, but I do apologize if I mess it up.

Mike or Big Mike as we meet him is living on a couch at a friends house, and the father gets him and his son admitted to a Christian school. Big Mike is a very large black man in a school of mostly white kids. He feels out of place, and keeps to himself. He does not do his homework, because he does not know how to study. No one has ever taken an interest in him, and so he feels very out of place in his current setting. He hears the people who are letting him stay on their couch fighting about him, so he takes his only belongings and runs away. He does not have anywhere to go, so he stays in the laundry Mart where it is warm, and in the school gym at night because it keeps the winter chill off of him. One night he is walking back to the school and it is very cold outside. But all he owns is 2 t-shirts and a pair of shorts.

The Tuohy a respectable Memphis, Tennessee family are going home one cold night and pass Mike on the street. Leigh Anne tells her husband to turn around and go back where they find out that Big Mike has no place to go for the night. The Tuohy's take him in for the night and it he sleeps on the couch. It lasts a couple of night's, and then Leigh Anne cleans out the spare bedroom and buys Mike a bed. Something he has never had before. It is really a great story and I don't want to tell to much more. I will copy and paste the IMDB.com synopsis, but if you don't want to ruin the movie....don't read it.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars. It is a great movie, it has great content, and it is a feel good movie.

XoXo-Andra Carla

"The Blind Side" is based on the remarkable true story of Baltimore Ravens offensive left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Michael grew up in the inner city housing projects with his mother in Memphis, Tennessee aptly named "Hurt Village". Michael's story begins with him being homeless and coming from a broken home with a drug-addicted mother, and an absentee father. Because of his family circumstances, Family Services took control of his life as he was growing up. Unfortunately, he was being bounced around in and out of foster homes, and now as a teenager he has taken it upon himself that he would rather be homeless. By a stroke of luck, and the coach's wish for a player the size of Michael, he ends up enrolling in a private Christian school where the Tuohy kids go. Michael is a quiet person. He is shown to have a kind of childish personality, because he tries to play with kindergarten children (Rachel St. Gelais) who reject or ignore him. Michael is befriended by S.J. Tuohy (Jae Head), the youngest Tuohy whose connection to Michael starts the ball rolling.

One icy winter night, as Michael is walking down the road to the school gym, where he is sleeping, Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) with her husband Sean (Tim McGraw) and children Jae and Collins (Lily Collins) pick Michael up and take him home for the night. However, he stays for the next night, which puzzles Sean, although the children accept Michael matter-of-factly. Soon, Leigh Anne offers him a room and bed. As she starts making him greater and greater favours, he comes to research through Michael's exams, and the only positive feedback that teachers could ever say about him is that he had big protective instincts. Leigh Anne will use that to explain him how to play in the field. Up to that moment, he wasn't able to get the hang of the game and its rules, and he wasn't able to understand what his role in the field was.

From that moment, Michael starts to play well and be useful to his team. At the traditional Christmas card photograph of that year, Leigh Anne invites him to appear on the photo. Leigh Anne's friends Beth (Rhoda Griffs), Elaine (Eaddy Mays) and Sherry (Ashley LeConte Campbell) meet regularly at a local expensive restaurant. The friends laugh about Leigh Anne's "project in the projects", but she cuts it off, saying that if they don't respect what she does, she will stop seeing them.

An opportunity arises for Michael to play at university level. However, he needs his grades to improve, so the Tuohys hire a private tuition teacher, outspoken and kind Miss Sue (Kathy Bates), who will immediately succeed. During their Geography lesson, she makes a stupid remark about some university burying the bodies of dead people in their game field, which Michael seems to believe blindly.

There comes a moment when Leigh Anne wants to have a face-to-face conversation with Michael's mother(Adriane Lenox). Although she seems unresponsive in the beginning, the mother finally wishes Michael the best. She says that social services had branded Michael "a runner", and she forecasts that Leigh Anne will find one day that he has run away for good without giving any previous notice. Leigh Anne also faces some guys from the projects which had threatened Michael. They are left speechless when she threatens them and is not afraid of them at all.

3 universities want Michael. S. J. talks to the coaches, and leads the negotiations on Michael's behalf. When Michael gets his grades high enough, he must make a decision, and he does. He chooses the university where Sean had played for, and where Leigh Anne was a cheerleader. That causes Investigator Granger (Sharon Morris) to move onto the matter before Michael arrives there. She questions him as though they were holding interrogatory preceding at a police station. She thinks that the Tuohys and Miss Sue are using Michael to benefit that particular university.

After thinking and questioning Leigh Ann on the matter, Michael realises that the Tuohys are now his family, and tells Granger that that's the reason for him to choose that university.

The film ends saying that he'll succeed and become a professional player later on. S. J went out to the game field with Michael before all local games.