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The Blind Side

  • 20092009
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 9m
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Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron in The Blind Side (2009)
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The story of Michael 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.The story of Michael 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.The story of Michael 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.
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
337K
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POPULARITY
937
275
    • John Lee Hancock
    • John Lee Hancock
    • Michael Lewis(book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game")
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    • Quinton Aaron
    • Sandra Bullock
    • Tim McGraw
    • John Lee Hancock
    • John Lee Hancock
    • Michael Lewis(book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game")
  • Stars
    • Quinton Aaron
    • Sandra Bullock
    • Tim McGraw
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    • 592User reviews
    • 270Critic reviews
    • 53Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Quinton Aaron
    Quinton Aaron
    • Michael Oher
    Sandra Bullock
    Sandra Bullock
    • Leigh Anne Tuohy
    Tim McGraw
    Tim McGraw
    • Sean Tuohy
    Jae Head
    Jae Head
    • S.J. Tuohy
    Lily Collins
    Lily Collins
    • Collins Tuohy
    Ray McKinnon
    Ray McKinnon
    • Coach Cotton
    Kim Dickens
    Kim Dickens
    • Mrs. Boswell
    Adriane Lenox
    Adriane Lenox
    • Denise Oher
    Kathy Bates
    Kathy Bates
    • Miss Sue
    Catherine Dyer
    Catherine Dyer
    • Mrs. Smith
    Andy Stahl
    Andy Stahl
    • Principal Sandstrom
    Tom Nowicki
    Tom Nowicki
    • Literature Teacher
    Libby Whittemore
    Libby Whittemore
    • Sarcastic Teacher
    Brian Hollan
    • Jay Collis
    Melody Weintraub
    Melody Weintraub
    • History Teacher
    Sharon Conley
    Sharon Conley
    • Investigator Granger
    • (as Sharon Morris)
    Omar J. Dorsey
    Omar J. Dorsey
    • 'Big Tony' Hamilton
    • (as Omar Dorsey)
    Paul Amadi
    • Steven Hamilton
      • John Lee Hancock
      • John Lee Hancock
      • Michael Lewis(book "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game")
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    • Trivia
      Collins Tuohy, an A student, rearranged her schedules, and dropped out of several advanced placement classes, to share more classes with Michael Oher and help him graduate.
    • Goofs
      After they make the U-turn to pick up Michael, Sean asks, "Where to?" Leigh Anne points straight-ahead and says, "home". Home would have been behind them; they would have had to make another U-turn.
    • Quotes

      Michael Oher: Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake, but you're not supposed to question adults, or your coach or your teacher, because they make the rules. Maybe they know best, but maybe they don't. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the six hundred guys think about giving up, and joining with the other side? I mean, valley of death that's pretty salty stuff. That's why courage it's tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you're doing something. I mean any fool can have courage. But honor, that's the real reason for you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good. I think that's what the writer was saying, that you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.

    • Crazy credits
      Family, school and sports photographs of the real Michael Oher and of the real Tuohy family are shown during the initial credits.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Inglourious Basterds/Post Grad/World's Greatest Dad (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Unsquare Dance
      Written by Dave Brubeck

      Performed by Dave Brubeck Quartet (as The Dave Brubeck Quartet)

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    8/10
    Humorous, heartwarming, and satisfying
    In the fact-based film The Blind Side, a burly homeless black teenager Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) is taken in by the family of Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock), a spunky white Christian mother of two and assisted through school until he achieves success as a football player in high school and college, eventually being drafted in the first round by the professional Baltimore Ravens. The film, written and directed by John Lee Hancock and adapted from a book by Michael Lewis, is undemanding entertainment that lacks a great deal of subtlety but is continuously entertaining and emotionally involving and redefines the true meaning of family values.

    Michael who is known initially as "Big Mike" has been abandoned by his drug-addicted mother and survives in the slums of Memphis, Tennessee only by his wits. He sleeps where he can find a warm place -- a friend's couch, a Laundromat, a school gym -- when a family friend intervenes and helps him enroll in a private Christian high school. Sensing the boys' potential, football coach Cotton (Ray McKinnon) convinces the administrators of the school to admit him although he knows that he will not be eligible to play football unless he can keep up his grades. Seeing Michael alone wandering the streets, he is given a lift and taken home and made a member of the family by Leigh Anne, an interior designer who lives with her husband Sean (Tim McGraw), teenage daughter Collins (Lily Collins), and SJ (Jae Head) an expressive little boy who provides most of the film's comic moments.

    Living with the Tuohy family allows Michael to learn to trust and to begin to express some of his feelings from a life of poverty and neglect. Michael who is so big that Leigh Anne can hardly find any clothes to buy for him is also gentle and lacks the killer instinct required of a football tackle. Tutored by the adorable SJ and counseled by Leigh Anne to view the team as a family he has to protect, Michael begins to develop his aggressiveness as a left tackle and develops his skills, eventually turning the team into winners. To raise his grades to be eligible for a college scholarship, the Tuohys hire Miss Sue, remarkably performed by Kathy Bates, who admits to the Republican family that she is a Democrat, prompting Sean to remark that he "never thought they would have a black son before they met a Democrat." Besides his grades, however, Michael must overcome several more obstacles that stand in his way before he can enter college.

    The Blind Side shows Michael Oher achieving a transformation in his life based on his relationship with the family who took him and nurtured him to independence and self-respect. Sandra Bullock delivers an emotionally resonant performance as a woman whose life is enriched by her simple act of kindness and courage to act from her values. While the film breaks no new ground stylistically, it also resists genre clichés, has no movie villains, avoids cheap sentiment, and, in spite of patronizing images in its trailers and advertising posters, is a humorous, heartwarming, and satisfying experience. Ultimately, The Blind Side is not a film about sports but about the rewards of showing love and support when it is not always accepted or understood by the community.
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    • Release date
      • November 20, 2009 (United States)
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    • Filming locations
      • Atlanta International School - 2890 N. Fulton Drive, Buckhead, Georgia, USA
    • Production companies
      • Alcon Entertainment
      • 3 Arts Entertainment
      • Left Tackle Pictures
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    • 2 hours 9 minutes
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