The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 7/10 (25 March 2010)

The Blindside
Usually when you pick up a stranger on the roadside, the only thing that you get is your name in the newspaper next to the phrase "was brutally murdered". Fortunately, the Southern fried family in this football film got something better than that.
After offering a ride home to a homeless African American high school student, Big Mike (Quinton Aaron), Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and her Caucasian family end up adopting him.
Slow to embrace his new surroundings, Big Mike soon learns that life with an affluent, white family has its benefits, including a personal tutor (Kathy Bates) and an opportunity to play University football.
While it does have a tendency to sway towards typical white-person-educating-inner-city- youth territory, The Blindside's real life source material keeps it authentic.
Now, if only every rich, white family in the Southern United States would take in an African American...oh, wait, that was abolished. (Green Light)