Plot: A white housewife takes in a black boy who later becomes a high school athlete. The boy becomes a member of the family gradually during the movie. At the end, there is controversy involving college recruiting.
Review: Blind Side is cloying sweet candy soaked in warm-fuzzy melodrama, frosted with after-school-special morality and all dipped in suburban white guilt. No character was realistic; Leigh Ann Touhy (Sandra Bullock) is too perfect and too glib; husband Sean Touhy (Tim McGraw) and daughter Collins Touhy (Lily Collins) are just props for Leigh. The football player, Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron,) tries so heard to prove he is harmless and nice, that he does not have any human emotion.
Jae Head who played the young son, SJ Touhy, steals every scene he is in. He lightens up the action, and is used by the director to move the story along. I doubt there is any documentary accuracy in any of his dialog. Lots of good lines, well delivered. I'd like to see more of Jae Head.
Sandra Bullock also delivers a fun performance in an otherwise dismally cheerful picture.
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head
Crew: written and directed by John Lee Hancock based on the book by Michael Lewis
Rating: 1.5 flasks - not bad enough to be one star, but really awful. I was going to put up a picture of treacle syrup instead of the movie poster to show what I really thought.
More: I liked the football game scenes. Good photography. Good plotting for these quick scenes.
Even more: Blind Side deals with racial issues. The film is hard on the southern whites who do not accept Michael, but the film does not present positive black role models (aside from the NCAA official at the very end of the film -- who is a 'villain'.) All the younger blacks in this film are hoodlums and drug addicts and all the virtuous adults were white.
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