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Thursday November 19, 2009


Family Film Reviews
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Family Film Reviews

Jane Horwitz

"The Blind Side" (PG-13, 2 hrs., 6 min.)


One might want to dismiss "The Blind Side" as just a phony feel-good
story in which an African-American youngster from the projects is
rescued by idealistic white people and given a bright future. In this
case, however, the story happens to be true and it's mighty involving
and entertaining, even if director/screenwriter John Lee Hancock lays
it on a little thick. Then again, the real people he's portraying are
larger than life. This story ought to hold teens rapt.


_base_d on a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis, "The Blind Side:
Evolution of a Game," the movie chronicles how a wealthy Memphis
decorator, Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock), took under her wing a
homeless teenager she encountered near her kids' school. Michael Oher
(Quinton Aaron) eventually joined the Tuohy family, went to college on
a football scholarship and today plays for the Baltimore Ravens.


In the film, Leigh Anne sees Michael walking coatless one frigid night
after a basketball game. Her little boy, S.J. (Jae Head), tells her
that Michael attends his Christian academy. (We learn earlier in the
film that he was enrolled as a friend of the custodian's son and as a
possible football prospect, but that he can't do the school work and
won't interact with anyone.) Leigh Anne insists that Michael come home
with them and sleep over. Her husband Sean (country music star and
actor Tim McGraw) is tentative, but willing. Her teenage daughter
Collins (Lily Collins) is dubious, but little S.J. is thrilled. A
palship is born.


What begins as an impulsive offer of shelter becomes something greater