THEY DIDN'T NEED TO FABRICATE STUFF
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.
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Easily 5 stars
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.
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