Part football movie and part "Precious" with a happy ending, John Lee Hancock's "The Blind Side" is a heart-tugger that once again proves that sometimes truth (more or less) is stranger than reality.
Although still sporting the same blond wig, Sandra Bullock redeems herself after the dreadful "All About Steve" by beautifully playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, a Steel Magnolia in Memphis who takes a troubled black teenager named Michael Oher into her very white family's McMansion.
"Who ever thought," Leigh Anne's husband Sean (country singer Tim McGraw, very good) remarks later on the couple's prejudices, "we would have a black son before we knew a Democrat?"
Part football movie and part "Precious" with a happy ending, John Lee Hancock's "The Blind Side" is a heart-tugger that once again proves that sometimes truth (more or less) is stranger than reality.
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Although still sporting the same blond wig, Sandra Bullock redeems herself after the dreadful "All About Steve" by beautifully playing Leigh Anne Tuohy, a Steel Magnolia in Memphis who takes a troubled black teenager named Michael Oher into her very white family's McMansion.
"Who ever thought," Leigh Anne's husband Sean (country singer Tim McGraw, very good) remarks later on the couple's prejudices, "we would have a black son before we knew a Democrat?"
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