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Movie Reviews - The Blind Side 
 
Movie Reviews this week looks at the Oscar winning biographical drama The Blind 
Side.
It is an absolutely charming story, of Leigh Anne Tuohy played by the lovely 
Sandra Bullock (Speed), and the story of her adopted son, and you can see 
immediately why she won the best actress Oscar.

She plays a conservative mother in a very nice and well-off neighbourhood, who 
sees Michael Oher played very convincingly by Quinton Aaron, one rainy night 
walking aimlessly, she asks her husband Sean played by Tim McGraw (Four 
Christmases), to stop the car, she asks him where he is heading seeing he is 
just in a t-shirt in the pouring rain, he says he is going to the gym, she asks 
him again why he is going to the gym, and tells him the gym closed a while 
back, and for him not to lie to her, he says he is simply going there because 
it is warm.

Prior to this, we are told the story of how Mike got into the school in the 
first place. The coach at this Christian school, Burt Cotton played charmingly 
as always by Ray McKinnon (Randy and the Mob) had been approached by a fellow 
to allow his son into the school, as well as Mike, the coach sees Mike and the 
man's son playing basketball and sees the potential of Mike making them famous 
on a sporting arena, so convinces the board that it is their Christian duty to 
let him in. However in class Mike seems distant minded, and all the teachers 
are worried as he seems the slowest in the class, except for one particular 
teacher Mrs. Bower played the lovely Kim Dickens (Hollow Man) who notices Mike 
remembers the majority of what the teachers are saying, as he is able to 
describe in his own words the grasp of what it is they are saying, but may not 
necessarily write it down as eloquently as they wanted. As all the teachers are 
discussing Mike's ability one day, wondering if he can write, Mrs. Bower shows 
them a note that Mike had written that had been thrown in the trash, speaking 
of his sadness and what the teachers expect of him, to do all the work alone.

Leigh asks where he lives, his parents, or grandparents, Mike shakes his head 
nonchalantly, and Leigh amazingly takes him to her home, with a mild 
confrontation with her husband as to how long Mike is going to stay, he asks 
"This is just for the one night"? Where Leigh nods absentmindedly, but the 
expression on her face is already thinking of much longer term.

Mike gets along with Leigh's two children, her son S.J. played very 
impressively by Jae Head, and her daughter Collins played by the adorable Lily 
Collins, Leigh asks her how she would feel if Mike moved in with them 
permanently, she nonchalantly agrees, and when Mike is asked how he would feel 
moving having Leigh and Sean as his legal guardians, he smiles and thought he 
was already part of the family.

The Blind Side turns out is a very beautiful movie, of acceptance and love that 
a young man needs, and the struggle one woman faces with social services, her 
social circles, and the community in trying to make one boy's life better, and 
what makes this movie even more amazing is this is a true story.

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