Sandra's Oscar Nomination!

Rating: 8/10 (26 December 2009)

Something is going to be wrong if Sandra Bullock isn't awarded an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress for her performance Leigh Anne Tuohy, a Memphis interior designer, wife, and mother to Collins (a girl) and Sean Jr. She is married to successful Sean Tuohy, a former basketball star. They are both alums of Ole Miss or University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Bullock does her best as portraying Leigh Anne to be both flawed and credible. She doesn't overdue her performance as the wealthy white woman who brings Big Mike home to their million-dollar home in Memphis for one night which lasts a couple of years. She warms up to him who changes the family in ways that probably wouldn't have been possible. Big Mike prefers to be called Michael. Until he became homeless, he was living on the couch of a neighbor in the slums who offered a place to stay because his mother has substance problems. Michael has flashbacks to his childhood but the film doesn't dwell on it so much. Michael gets into a private Christian school because they think he can play football. He comes with the man, Tony and his son, Steven. After Michael starts school, we hear an argument with Tony and his wife over Michael's situation.