The Blind Side

I love this movie. It's so good that if it's on at any time, I will watch it. Movies and actors tend to win big awards when the movie is about real people and their real stories. Sandra Bullock absolutely deserved to win with this movie, and she's pretty gorgeous as a blonde I might add.

The majority of any movie or book starts off with some sort of change happening. In this case, Michael Oher (Big Mike) finds himself enrolled in a private christian school. The expectation of him is that once his grades are up he will play sports for the school. He's lived a pretty crazy life. His mom is a drug addict, siblings separated and estranged, poor, homeless, and a schooling in which he has practically learned nothing because none of his teachers cared about him. At Wingate, a couple of the teachers notice him and take an interest into what teaching styles work best for him. He starts out with a 0.6 gpa, and needs desperate help if he is going to succeed. His teachers figure out that he is a very poor reader, and decide to administer his tests verbally.

While he is at this school he crosses paths with the Touhy family. Sean (Tim McGraw), Leanne (Sandra Bullock) and their two children SJ and Collins (a girl). On a cold, rainy night after the Thanksgiving pageant at school, they run into Michael walking along with no real place to go. And so Leanne simply decides to practice genuine hospitality and kindness, and invites him to stay with them for the night. He ends up staying with them permanently and works his way into their hearts and family.

He also deeply cares about the family, as they are his inspiration that gives him the drive in football to protect his fellow players. After a rough start he becomes quite the football sensation and all the colleges come running to recruit to him. The Touhy's even hire a tutor to help him raise his grades so that he will be eligible for a scholarship.All in all life seems to be going good for Michael, even though his past haunts him occasionally. After a tough decision between colleges, he decides on his family's alma mater Ole Miss. Then the NCAA gets involved wondering if the Touhy's adopted him on purpose to feed a star athlete into their college's sports program. Doubting if his family's intentions were pure, Michael runs away to his old home, ends up getting into quite a skirmish with the local thugs, and then is re insured that his relationship with the Touhy's is truly out of love, not gain.

Michael then goes to Ole Miss, and his tutor joins him. He makes All-American, and is drafted to the Baltimore Ravens in 2009. Yay happy ending!!

The characters are really amazing in this. The guy who plays Michael is just so shy and loveable. Leanne is an incredibly feisty woman who doesn't take no for an answer. SJ is just a cooky little kid that adds lots of humor to the movie.
<--- It's T-Dawg from The Walking Dead!

Leanne Touhy, a designer, ends up being an occasional designer on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition not long after this movie came out. I even remember that she was on the team that did a house in Wellman, TX, not far from Hobbs!

I've finally gotten to where I don't cry during this movie, especially in the scene in which SJ and Michael get into a car wreck.

Such a great movie!, if you haven't seen it ,then go and watch it soon :)

Andrew's Closing Thought: It's a pretty good

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