Blind Side-Cliché Ridden To the Hilt **1/2

Rating: 6/10 (2 October 2010)

We've seen, read and heard about this so many times. Problem with this film is that it is handled in the typical way. I am referring to the fact that a tall black young man coming out of a terrible environment lives with an affluent black family and the opportunities for him abound.
Sandra Bullock, in her Oscar winning performance, plays the liberal woman who takes this young man in. Despite an 80 IQ and an inability to read, he soon succeeds in a private religious school due to his ability to remember what has been said. This is so cliché.
Of course, there has to be prejudice shown as we're dealing with the old south. Isn't it about time that 2008 presidential election results really hit home?
Bullock encounters his real drug addicted mother. The father goes over a run-way to his demise, colleges beckon for the young man, Bullock and husband are accused by the NCAA of working for Old Mississippi to get the lad to go to their school on a football scholarship. Our young man goes back to see his mother and could have fallen in with the local hoodlums, but common sense prevails. How many times have we heard this all before?
Unbelievable that Bullock received an Oscar for this part. Her competition must have been extremely weak.