Good news!  “The Blind Side” is an excellent family film.  I haven’t typed those words very often this past year, but do so unreservedly here.

“The Blind Side” is adapted from the book of the same name by Michael Lewis (“Moneyball”).  The story documents the intersection of two completely disparate cultures in Memphis, Tennessee.  It is a true story, but like any film adaptation there are some incongruities with reality (some “creative license” to make it more dramatic).  Michael Oher is a very poor black teenager who grew up in a broken home.  His mother is a drug addict who has fathered 13 other children and has a hard time remembering who Michael’s real father was.  Through the persistence of a friend’s father, Michael is accepted to a private Christian school but he struggles socially and scholastically.  When he is no longer able to sleep on a friend’s couch, because the family can’t afford to feed “Big Mike” anymore, he starts sleeping in the gym at school and surviving on popcorn and concessions left after the high school games.   Read More→

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