| The Blind Side / L'Eveil d'un champion |  | Studio: Warner
Category: DVD
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 204
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 883929121601
EAN: 0883929121601
ASIN: B00364K7AU
Release Date: March 23, 2010
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The Blind Side takes the true story of a young man who went from abandonment to success as a pro-football player and treats it with respect. The movie doesn't oversell what is, on the face of it, already compelling. It's almost impossible to describe the plot without sounding painfully inspirational: Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron, Be Kind Rewind), a hulking but gentle African-American teen in Tennessee, gets taken in by a well-to-do white family; the mother, Leigh Anne Touhy (Sandra Bullock), pushes and mothers the boy, who eventually wins a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi. In the wrong hands, this could have been maudlin, manipulative, and condescending. To the credit of writer-director John Lee Hancock, adapting Michael Lewis's acclaimed book, the result is intelligent, genuine, and alternately funny and moving. Leigh Anne could easily have been grandstanding and virtuous, but Bullock doesn't shy away from her vain and domineering side. The football scenes will be gripping even to non-sports fans because they've been so successfully grounded in Michael's emotional life. The all-around solid cast includes country music star Tim McGraw, pint-sized Jae Head (Hancock), and Kathy Bates as the tutor who guided Michael's academic success. Don't be surprised if you can't keep yourself from watching all the real-life photos of Michael, Leigh Anne, and the rest of the family that are featured in the credits; by the end of the movie, you will care about them all. --Bret Fetzer
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 Love it! May 22, 2010
Debrah Courville (Northern Ontario, Canada)
The Blind Side: is a great movie that shows the true ways of a real christian family should be like. I love this movie.
Make Love Your Aim May 3, 2010
I. Akin Agunbiade (Canada)
I usually enjoy movies based on true stories. The Blind Side I tended to appreciate more especially because of the character played by Sandra Bullock. The strong woman in a family who knows what she wants and can stand up to anyone but yet still respect her spouse's decision...lol
The story was greatly told and I hope that miracles and stories like these are still happening in our world today
The Blind Side April 26, 2010
Dean Balser (New Brunswick,)
I think this is a very good DVD for families and for youth groups especially. We used our copy at a 40 hkdr famine overnighter at our chudrch and I have it available to anybody who wants to borrow it from our churchThe Blind Side
AMAZING EMOTION MOVIE April 17, 2010
PINHAL (France)
What a wonderful movie based on a true moving story!!!
Emotion & Action at the same time : it's been such a long time since i had seen such a great movie !!!!!
The actors' performance, all of them, make you live the story at the same time as the characters : amazing !!!
Very good stuff April 9, 2010
Andre Villemaire (Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great movie based on real life events. Sure its predictable, but the way it
is delivered makes its very interesting. Great stuff when you can sit down and
watch and enjoy a movie without commercial interruptions.
If i had the choice of picking the winner for the Oscars between Hurt Locker and
this movie...well The Blind Side would have won, second Avatar and then the Hurt
Locker. And its not just Sandra that did a good acting job...they all did.
Recommended and is a keeper for future views.
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