The Blind Side – 7.5

For Hollywood cornpone, this was done well and was a lot of fun (cf. Whip It). Sandra Bullock ate up the screen, but I was just as enamored of Tim McGraw as her easygoing husband and Collins and S.J., their two age-appropriate kids. By making Michael silent and rather opaque (cf. Precious), we could focus on Lee Ann, who was anything but. It is hard to dramatize the importance of an offensive left tackle in football, so those scenes were rather a stretch; but there was lot of truth to the recruiting sideshow, despite its exaggeration. This was much better than I expected, even after discounting it for its massive popularity.

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