The Blind Side | 
| Director: John Lee Hancock
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates, Quinton Aaron, Lily Collins
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  393 reviews
Sales Rank: 18
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 129 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD110426D
UPC: 883929086696
EAN: 0883929086696
ASIN: B002VECM6S
Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 2009
Release Date: March 23, 2010
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Product Description
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.
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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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 Good Docudrama but Oscar? July 31, 2010
BeaBoo (Minneapolis, MN)
Good movie, great story with good acting but more of a Hallmark TV movie than an Oscar winning movie.
THEY DIDN'T NEED TO FABRICATE STUFF July 30, 2010
Michael Ledo (Windsor, SC United States)
Blindside is a fantastic after school special feel-good story where all the white people do the right things. My main beef with the story is that it was not necessary to add a bunch of nonsense that wasn't true, such as the young white kid having to instruct Big Mike on how to play football, or Sandra Bullock going on the field to give Big Mike instructions. This was nonsense, not true, and not needed. Instead they could have showed some college plays that made him go so high in the draft. The story and acting were great, even the non-Dakota Fanning child actors who tend to be less than great. Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Ann Tuohy. In the south, parents name their girls "Leigh" after Robert E. Lee. The movie is sometimes hard to swallow, it is so drippy at times. In fact it is so drippy, there is no need to overpower the auidence with feel good music as so many movies do in order to generate emotion. This one can do it without the sound track. The guy who played Lou Holtz was an idiot, other than that, it was all good. Go ahead and read all the reviews, even the spoilers, as this movie is too good to spoil.
 Very Satisfied Customer July 29, 2010
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Very happy with the service and product that was shipped. It arrived much faster than was promised. Would not hesitate to use this seller again.
Easily 5 stars July 28, 2010
L. Jerome (Silver Spring, Maryland USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great movie - very touching. If you don't cry at least once, you're not human.
Beyond race, beyond religion, beyond politics, we are all human, and compassion is what makes us human.
What a movie! July 27, 2010
cosbyfan24
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow, im not much of a football fan or a country music fan but neither are that apparent in the movie. the story line is well written and the message is more sound than any movie ive seen in a long time. Well worth watching more than once.
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