The Blind Side

 

The Blind Side 2009

• Director: John Lee Hancock
• Based on book by Michael Lewis
• Cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in
• Sandra Bullock – The Heat, Gravity, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Lake House, Miss Congeniality 1&2, Crash, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 28 Days, Practical Magic, While You Were Sleeping, Speed
• Quinton Aaron – Be Kind Rewind
• Why? Bullock
• Seen: 17 March 2023

 Leigh Ann (Bullock) is a bossy sexy rich white Christian Republican businesswoman who takes on Big Mike (Aaron), a large black homeless, nearly mute, and underachieving student and outstanding athlete.

There’s an enormous risk that this film is going to be a saccharine sweet holier-than-thou film about good-hearted privileged white folks who are shocked by the poverty, drugs and crime on the other side of town and get all self-righteous about charity but give nary a thought to changing the system that gives them their privileges.

It is. And oh yes, it’s a true story.

Bullock and Aaron are good, but the film is Bullock’s worst, of those I’ve seen. 

2 * of 5