The Blind Side (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: John Lee Hancock

Writers: John Lee Hancock, Michael Lewis

Cinematographer: Alar Kivilo

Composer: Carter Burwell

Cast: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head, Lily Collins, Ray McKinnon, Kim Dickens, Adriane Lenox, Kathy Bates

A homeless Memphis teenager, as big, strong, and loving as he is poor and hopeless, gets taken in a by a rich family whose children go to the same school, and goes onto become a much admired American footballer, courted by all the big colleges, in this hugely likeable though strangely lightweight and even vaguely irreverent adaptation of Michael Lewis’s fact-based book. Iain.Stott