The Blind Side
The story of Michael Oher, an unprivileged and traumatized lad who became an All time American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
27 July 1961, Larose, Louisiana, USA
23 January 1975, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
19 February 1959, Jamestown, New York, USA
8 March 1973, San Miguel, El Salvador
8 April 1952, San Antonio, Texas, USA
22 December 1975, Decatur, Georgia, USA
23 September 1975, Glenwood, Georgia, USA
30 March 1964, Newark, New Jersey, USA
15 July 1987, Napa, California, USA
1 November 1975, Newark, New Jersey, USA
6 January 1937, Follansbee, West Virginia, USA
11 September 1956, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
14 August 1979, Hazard, Kentucky, USA
May 28, 1986 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
1 October 1982, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 July 1983, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1 September 1950, Winchester, Tennessee, USA
18 February 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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.
July 05, 2011
A living tribute to fundamental Christian motivations, although the point is hammered home with an extraordinarily soft touch: Love thy neighbor.
April 04, 2011
You're going to be crying by the end.
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?
November 24, 2009
Its superficiality keeps it from being the moving story it could have been.
January 24, 2014
The movie is very familiar -- you've seen it all before -- but it succeeds at achieving its modest goals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
