Before it was a film, The Blind Side began as a sports-analysis book by Michael Lewis. Quite by accident, it became the moving story of the All American football player Michael Oher of the Baltimore Ravens.
The author contacted his old baseball teammate, Sean Tuohy, and interviewed him about their high school baseball coach. While he was in the Tuohys home he learned about the Tuohys’ unusual adoptiion of Oher, a homeless black teenager. Lewis scrapped his original idea of writing a baseball book and decided to write about football and, incidentally, the phenomenal tale of the Tuohy family’s involvement with Oher.
What makes their story so unique is the divergent backgrounds of the Tuohys and Oher. He’s from the Hurt Village projects in Memphis, Tenn., and earns scholarship at their daughters’ Christian academy. Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy are ultra-wealthy white Southerners living in an exclusive suburb of Memphis. Despite their different worlds, Oher shares their lives and captures their hearts. The parents and their two children open their home and arms to Oher and wonder who is benefitting the most from the experience. It’s a win-win situation and an uplifting film by John Lee Hancock, the same filmmaker who brought us the entertaining film, The Rookie, with Dennis Quaid.
My rating is five stars for an outstanding script and performances. Sandra Bullock is perfectly cast as the blond, confident Southern Belle with a big heart. Jae Head plays Sean Tuohy Jr. (AKA S.J.). He’s a natural as the precocious fast-talking, wonderfully kind little brother to Big Mike, the lonely black kid in an all-white alien environment. Oher, played masterfully by Quinton Aaron, is a harmless giant, whose luck finally changes for the best when he meets the Tuohys. He excels in football and in life thanks to their loving support. We, the audience, feel their connection. These actors convince us they are the Tuohys. There’s never a dull moment in this stirring family/football saga. See it and bring the kids!Here is the link to watch the movie online. Just copy paste the link below.
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Its a pleasure to watch this film. The actors have performed so well and in true sense they brought life to their role. Its a perfect film in all sense.
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