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Blind Side

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6.8 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: John Lee Hancock
Michael Lewis (book)

Directed by: John Lee Hancock

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 20, 2009
DVD: March 23, 2010

Running Time: 126 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references

Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Lily Collins, and Jae Head

Teenager Michael Oher is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when he is spotted on the street by Leigh Anne Tuohy. Learning that the young man is one of her daughter's classmates, Leigh Anne insists that Michael--wearing shorts and a t-shirt in the dead of winter--come out of the cold. Without a moment's hesitation, she invites him to stay at the Tuohy home for the night. What starts out as a gesture of kindness turns into something more as Michael becomes part of the Tuohy family despite the differences in their backgrounds. (Warner Bros.)

What The Critics Said

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80

Film Threat Elias Savada

This may be Bullock's best performance. Ever.

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75

New York Post Lou Lumenick

What makes The Blind Side a Thanksgiving treat is director Hancock's subtle touch and admirable refusal to yield to sports movie clichés, something he did previously with "The Rookie" and "Remember the Titans."

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75

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

One of the reasons it's so effective is because it's based on a real-life, odds-defying story: that of mountainous Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher (played by Quinton Aaron).

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75

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

Without restraint or subtlety, but with a lot of heart and energy, this movie tells a real-life tall tale.

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75

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Best performance, minute for minute, comes from Adriane Lenox, whose cameo as Michael's drug-addled mother is the film's standout.

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75

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Grounded in the direct, disarming truth of their experience, the movie has a straightforward lack of cheap sentiment that saves it from being either too maudlin or saccharine-sweet.

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75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

In a head-to-head comparison, one would be hard-pressed not to declare that "Precious" is the better film - it makes fewer compromises and doesn't shy from showing the true ugliness only hinted at in this movie, but The Blind Side is more accessible. It's easier to digest. In the end, both films tell stories of triumph over adversity - a category of drama that uplifts while offering a dollop of social commentary.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Bullock is an irrepressible hoot in writer-director John Lee Hancock's otherwise thoroughly conventional take on Michael Lewis' fact-based book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game."

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70

Variety Joe Leydon

Uplifting and entertaining feel-good, fact-based sports drama.

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70

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The story is inspiring and involves sports, but to call it an inspirational sports story would be wrong; its real center is Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock in a fine performance), the strong-willed woman whose love and generosity helped turn a mute, hopeless boy with no social or academic skills into a functioning young man with a promising future.

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70

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Wisely, Hancock has given the film as much humor as heart.

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67

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

It’s not an altogether convincing portrait, but it is an entertaining, even moving one, and the forcefulness of Bullock's presence goes a long way in pulling the film back from the brink of cuddliness.

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63

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Bullock’s levelheaded acting frequently saves the movie from emotional garishness.

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63

Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand

An engaging if transparent tearjerker of the first water.

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63

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

Michael as a character is defined almost solely by his helplessness and gratitude. He's as lovable as a lost puppy, but a more perceptive movie than The Blind Side would have let us see him from another angle.

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63

USA Today Claudia Puig

Has strong performances and stirring football scenes.

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60

Slate Dana Stevens

For all The Blind Side's flaws, it's impossible not to get caught up in Michael Oher's life.

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60

Empire Ian Freer

Bullock delivers a towering performance that grabs the movie and the Oscar race by the scruff of the neck. You will be moved, but at the price of any nuance or complexity.

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55

NPR Bob Mondello

Unlike the tale told in "Precious", however, The Blind Side's story is contrived, storybook sweet, credulity-straining and ... um, true.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Never dull, but it's rarely more than gently entertaining.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

A football story that deserves a penalty flag every other play for piling on the sentiment.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Veers perilously close to the concept of poverty tourism.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

A feel-good movie that never stops feeling good. The film is based on a true story (it was adapted from a nonfiction best-seller by Michael Lewis), but you never feel that Hancock has honestly captured what's true about it.

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50

The New York Times A.O. Scott

The film, not unsurprisingly for a holiday- (and football-) season release from a major Hollywood studio, plays this story straight down the middle, shedding nuance and complication in favor of maximum uplift.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

It's fair to say that Bullock's appealing portrait of a strong-willed Tennessee belle ranks among the best work of her career. It's just too bad the movie around her comes up short.

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42

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

A facile, feel-good fable that substitutes cliché for reality at nearly every turn.

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25

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Sports movies have a long, troubled history of well-meaning white paternalism, with poor black athletes finding success through white charity. But The Blind Side, based on Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book, finds a new low.

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20

Time Out New York David Fear

It’s just blinkered middle-class pandering at its most shameless.

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0

Village Voice Melissa Anderson

Blind Side the movie peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of African-Americans who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 150 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Hannah B. gave it a4:
This movie feels like a racist Disney Channel movie. I mean the idea that some white lady changes a black guys life is demeaning. Sure, an okay performance from Sandra Bullock but an Oscar?! That's ridiculous.

shawn A gave it a2:
I wonder who Jesse James slept with to get Sandra an Academy Award? What a B level actress at best.

Dan L gave it a10:
This movie has some of the best acting and dramatization I have seen from a movie in a long time. Sandra Bullock normally plays in goofy, ditzy roles, but she did a wonderful job in her serious role. The other thing that I liked to see is that she played the dominant role in the house even though her husband played by Tim McGraw created most of the income. So all in all this movie was an all around great movie and Sandra Bullock deserved the Oscar that she won for it.

Tim G. gave it a9:
I liked the book better because the football scenes in the movie are tough to reproduce accurately.

martin s gave it a5:
I found this movie a bit condescending despite all the good intentions. The fact that it was nominated for an oscar shows just how easy it is to manipulate the selection committee.

Ethan C. gave it an8:
Of course they couldn't be nice people, that would be to unpessimistic of a view. Of course they could not do it for the fact that they wanted to be decent, they had to be "hell bent boosters", wanting to get Ole' Miss a championship tackle. Get a grip. It tells a very un-cliched tale, of a boy who finally finds the right spot in life. It also avoids many cliched sports movie moments (very rare). Some of the parts are awkward, and it does get slightly confusing here and there, but none the less this movie is very good. Don't listen to any of the critics, they just need to take the awkwardly placed football, and take it out of their you know what.

Andy gave it a9:
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