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Vorlage:About Vorlage:Infobox film The Blind Side is a 2009 American drama–sports film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.[1][2] The storyline features Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who plays for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through his years at Wingate Christian School (a fictional representation of Briarcrest Christian School[3]), his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, and on to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football. The Great Britain release date for the film has been announced to be March 12, 2010. For her performance, Sandra Bullock won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

The film stars Quinton Aaron as Michael Oher, Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy, Oher's adoptive parents, and Kathy Bates as Miss Sue, Oher's tutor.[1] The movie also features appearances by several current and former NCAA coaches, including SEC coaches Houston Nutt and Ed Orgeron (Oher's coaches in college, though Nutt represented Arkansas at the time and therefore does so in the film) and Nick Saban (who was at LSU at the time and represents them in the film), former coaches Lou Holtz, Tommy Tuberville, Phillip Fulmer, as well as recruiting analyst Tom Lemming.[4] It earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress.

Plot

For 17 years, Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) has been in foster care with different families. Every time he is sent to a new home, he runs off. One of his foster parents enrolls him into a Christian school, after the father convinces the coach that "Big Mike" is a natural athlete. The coach convinces the school principal to enroll him into the school. After school one day, Michael meets Sean "SJ" Jr. (Jae Head), who quickly befriends Michael. Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) is an interior designer, mother to SJ and Collins (Lily Collins), and wife to Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw). After a pre-holiday Thanksgiving school festival, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking on the road, shivering in the freezing cold; she pities his situation and offers him a place to spend the night. The next morning, much to her dismay, she finds Michael leaving their driveway and asks him to spend Thanksgiving with her family. Slowly, Michael starts becoming a part of the Tuohy family, even as Leigh Anne's friends warn her that Michael could affect SJ and Collins' social life. Nonetheless, SJ and Michael become buddies. Leigh Anne goes to the school about Michael's academic performance and is surprised to learn that even though he has scored low in essentially every aspect, he scored in the 98th percentile in 'protective instincts.' Sean also takes to Michael and lists the Tuohys as his emergency contact and talks to the school coach to get Michael enrolled in the football team.

Michael performs exceptionally on the field and catches the eye of many college coaches from around the state. SJ tells Michael that his mother cannot stand Tennessee. Leigh Anne comes to know that to get a NCAA Division I Scholarship, Michael needs a 2.5 GPA; his current GPA is too low, so they hire a private tutor to raise his grades. The school teachers also take a special interest and start giving his tests verbally rather than in written format. During one of his private tutor classes, his tutor, Miss Sue (Kathy Bates), tells him that the FBI bury the body parts of the unrecognized dead people under the football field of University of Tennessee. Michael's heart aches and this is possibly shown as a reason for Michael opting to join University of Mississippi ending with a 2.52 GPA. Subsequently, Michael receives a call from the NCAA, who suspects that the Tuohys forced Michael to select Mississippi, rather than Tennessee, his home-state team. The investigator also tells him that the Tuohys were from Mississippi and his high school coach got a better job at UM after Michael chooses Mississippi.

Michael leaves the investigation room and confronts Leigh Anne; he asks her if she only took him in so that he would play football for her alma mater. Michael goes to his birth mother's apartment in the projects, where his old friends at first welcome him, then make sexually suggestive remarks about his adoptive mother and sister. A fight ensues, where Michael easily dispatches three armed thugs, and flees the scene. Leigh Anne waits for Michael at home but when he does not show up, she goes in search of Michael. He finally calls her, and they meet at a neighborhood laundromat. Leigh Anne tells him that she will accept his decision on football and what to do with his life. Michael tells the investigator that he chose Mississippi because his whole family has gone to school there. Michael gets accepted to Ole Miss with a scholarship for football. Leaving Michael at school, Leigh Anne feels happy for what she has done for Michael and also what he has done for them all.

The film ends with the 2009 NFL Draft, showing the real-life Michael Oher being drafted by the Baltimore Ravens.

Cast

Production

The Blind Side is a film of Alcon Entertainment and a distribution of Warner Bros. The film was partially filmed at The Atlanta International School and The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, and features many of their students.[5] The film premiered on November 17 in New York City and New Orleans, and opened in theaters on November 20 in the United States and Canada.[6]

According to Reuters, the film's production budget was $29 million. Sandra Bullock took a pay cut and agreed to receive a percentage of the profits.[7]

Reception

Awards

The Blind Side has earned numerous awards and nominations for the lead performance of the film's star, Sandra Bullock.

Award Show Category Result
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actress for The Blind Side Nominated
People's Choice Award People's Choice Award - Favorite Movie Actress Won
Critics' Choice Award Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Blind Side Won Tied with Meryl Streep
Golden Globe Award Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for The Blind Side Won
Screen Actors Guild Award Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for The Blind Side Won
Academy Award for Best Actress Best actress in a leading role Nominated
Academy Award for Best Motion Picture Best picture Nominated

Critical reception

The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 70% of 132 critics have given the film a positive review, with a rating average of 6.3 out of 10. The site's general consensus is that "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."[8] Among Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics", which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 58%, based on a sample of 24 reviews.[9] Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 53 based on 28 reviews.[10]

Ann Hornaday of Washington Post gave a positive review of the film writing: "There's been something off-putting about the ad campaign for 'The Blind Side,' a drama about a white woman who adopts an African American high school student, from trailers trafficking in nearly every troubling African American stereotype in movies (from the Magical Negro to the surly low-level bureaucrat), to posters featuring the patronizing image of Sandra Bullock gently leading her looming, gentle giant of a son down a football field. It turns out that 'The Blind Side' is much better than its ads... Grounded in the direct, disarming truth of their experience, the movie has a straightforward lack of cheap sentiment that saves it from being either too maudlin or saccharine-sweet."[11]

Betsy Sharkey writing for Los Angeles Times "Wisely, Hancock has given the film as much humor as heart, whether it's Michael bench-pressing SJ or Leigh Anne calling in plays to a very irritated high school coach."[12] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called the film "a feel-good movie that never stops feeling good. The film is based on a true story..., but you never honestly feel that Hancock has captured what's true about it... He's so devoted to showing us what upbeat, selfless folks Leigh Anne and her family are that the movie never quite gets around to discovering what any of those far superior saintly-family TV shows surely would have: a dramatic conflict... what The Blind Side offers is a kind of liberal Hollywood version of conservative values: all rock-solid valor, all the time. The result isn't solid at all — it's more like cotton-candy uplift."[13]

Others however, such as The Onion's A.V. Club were less convinced, calling it "blinkered middle-class pandering at its most shameless."

Box office

The Blind Side opened in 3,110 theaters on its opening weekend, the weekend of November 20, 2009. It grossed a very strong $34,510,000 in its opening weekend, the second highest gross of that weekend, behind the The Twilight Saga: New Moon. It was the highest-grossing opening weekend of Sandra Bullock's career. The per-theater average for The Blind SidePflichtangabe Text für Zitat im Zitat fehlts opening weekend was $11,096.[14] In its opening weekend, the movie already proved to be a financial success, having a budget of just $29,000,000. It proved to have remarkable staying power, taking in an additional $9.5 million, bringing its gross to $60,125,000 by the weekend of November 27, 2009.[15] The movie enjoyed a very rare greater success for the second weekend than it did in its opening weekend, taking in an estimated $40 million, an increase of 18 percent, from November 27 to November 29, 2009, bringing its gross to $100,250,000.[16] In its third weekend, the movie continued its trend of rare feats by moving up to the number one position with $20.4 million in sales after spending the previous two weekends in second place for a total gross of $128.8 million.[17] In its fourth weekend, it moved down to second place, dropping a slim 23% with an estimated $15.5 million for a total of $150.2 million in the United States and Canada as of December 13, 2009.[17] The film hit $200 million domestically on January 1, 2010, marking the first time a movie marketed with a sole actress' name above the title (Bullock's) has crossed the $200 million mark.[18] The Blind Side has also become the highest grossing football movie and sports drama of all time domestically [19][20], unadjusted for ticket inflation.[21]

Home media

The Blind Side will be released on DVD and Blu-ray March 23, 2010.

References

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  1. ↑ a b Dave McNary: Kathy Bates to star in 'Blind Side' In: Variety, 27. März 2009. Abgerufen am 7. Juni 2009 
  2. ↑ The Blind Side (2009). Internet Movie Database, 22. April 2009, abgerufen am 8. Mai 2009.
  3. ↑ Briarcrest opted out of feature role in 'The Blind Side' from CommercialAppeal.com
  4. ↑ Schlabach, Mark: Prominent coaches turn actors for film. ESPN, 29. Juni 2009, abgerufen am 1. Juli 2009.
  5. ↑ The Blind Side - Filming locations
  6. ↑ The Blind Side - Release dates
  7. ↑ "Sandra Bullock scores touchdown at box office" on Reuters.com
  8. ↑ The Blind Side (2009). In: Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, abgerufen am 14. Dezember 2009.
  9. ↑ The Blind Side (Top Critics). In: Rotten Tomatoes. IGN Entertainment, abgerufen am 14. Dezember 2009.
  10. ↑ The Blind Side: Reviews (2009). In: Metacritic. CNET Networks, abgerufen am 26. Dezember 2009.
  11. ↑ "When the story carries the ball" from The Washington Post
  12. ↑ "Review: 'The Blind Side'" from Los Angeles Times
  13. ↑ The Blind Side from EW.com
  14. ↑ Weekend Box Office Results for November 20-22, 2009 from Box Office Mojo
  15. ↑ Daily Box Office for Thursday, November 26, 2009 from Box Office Mojo
  16. ↑ Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen boxofficemojo.com.
  17. ↑ a b "'Blind Side' tops 'New Moon' at box office" from Hollywood Reporter Referenzfehler: Ungültiges <ref>-Tag. Der Name „test“ wurde mehrere Male mit einem unterschiedlichen Inhalt definiert.
  18. ↑ "'Avatar' passes $300 million mark on Friday, and Sandra Bullock makes box-office history" from Hollywood Insider
  19. ↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=football.htm
  20. ↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=sportsdrama.htm
  21. ↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2634&p=.htm
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