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Nov 20, 2009 · The Blind Side: Directed by John Lee Hancock. With Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head. The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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181M subscribers. Subscribed. 9.1K. Oscar-winners Sandra Bullock and Kathy Bates, and country singing star Tim McGraw headline this deeply moving adaptation of the Michael Lewis bestseller about a...
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Seventeen-year-old Michael "Big Mike" Oher has been in foster care with different families in Tennessee, due to his biological mother's drug addiction, but every time he is placed in a new home, he runs back to her. His friend's father, on whose couch Michael has been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the football coach of Wingate Christian School, to he...
Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, Michael's adoptive motherTim McGraw as Sean Tuohy, Michael's adoptive fatherQuinton Aaron as Michael OherThe Blind Side was produced by Alcon Entertainment and released by Warner Bros. The film's production budget was $29 million. Filming for the school scenes took place at Atlanta International School and The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, and it features many of their students as extras. The film premiered on November 17 in New York City a...
Box office
The Blind Side opened in second place behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon, earning $34.5 million during its opening weekend. It was the highest-grossing opening weekend of Sandra Bullock's career. The movie enjoyed a rare greater success for the second weekend, taking in an estimated $40 million ranking again in second place to New Moon. During its third weekend, The Blind Side moved up to first place, earning $20.4 million due to strong word-of-mouth.In its fourth weekend, it moved down to se...
Critical response
Sandra Bullock's performance on The Blind Side received wide praise. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 66%, based on 206 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "It might strike some viewers as a little too pat, but The Blind Side has the benefit of strong source material and a strong performance from Sandra Bullock." Metacritic, which assigned a score of 53 out of 100, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mi...
Race relations
The film has been criticized for perpetuating the "white savior" trope. Jeffrey Montez de Oca of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs writes that in The Blind Side's portrayal of adoption, "charity operates as a signifying act of whiteness that obscures the social relations of domination that not only make charity possible but also creates an urban underclass in need of charity." Melissa Anderson of the Dallas Observer argues that the "mute, docile" portrayal of Oher effectively endors...
The film features 23 songs by artists including Les Paul, Young MC, Lucy Woodward, The Books, Canned Heat, Five for Fighting, and the film's co-star Tim McGraw. However, while the score soundtrack by Carter Burwellwas released on CD, none of the featured songs were included.
Home media
The Blind Side was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 23, 2010. It was available exclusively for rental from Blockbusterfor 28 days. Redbox and Netflix customers had to wait 28 days before they were able to rent the movie. This stems from the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Redbox against Warner Home Video, who, in an attempt to boost DVD sales, refused to sell wholesale titles to Redbox. On August 19, 2009, Redbox sued Warner Home Video to continue purchasing DVD titles at wholesale pri...
In August 2023, Oher filed a lawsuit alleging that Leigh Ann and Sean Tuohy never actually adopted him, but instead created a conservatorship which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name. He alleged that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to strike a deal that paid them and their two children millions of dollars in ro...
The Blind Side at IMDbThe Blind Side at AllMovieThe Blind Side at the TCM Movie DatabaseThe Blind Side. Oscar-winners Sandra Bullock and Kathy Bates, and country singing star Tim McGraw headline this deeply moving adaptation of the Michael Lewis bestselling book. 30,337 IMDb 7.6 2 h 8 min 2009. X-Ray PG-13. Drama · Sports · Ambitious · Heartwarming. Available to rent or buy. Rent. HD $3.79. Buy. HD $15.79. More purchase. options.
The Blind Side. The true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Tuohys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. 30,301 IMDb 7.6 2 h 8 min 2009. PG-13. Sports · Drama · Frightening · Fun. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location. Details.
