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Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2010)

It's alright. I don't see quite why Bullock won an Oscar for it, she's decent in it, without being spectacular or even very good. It is an unusual story and is told without the usual lorry load of sugar coated schmaltz. There is some - it's Hollywood so you can expect some but there was less than I thought there would be.
***SPOILER*** A few moments do jar, particularly with the Role of Bullock calling in plays for the football team (up tot his point she has displayed little knowledge or interest in the game), calling out her lunch friends on a racial slur or the 'share the credit' ending with the poem inspiring his English essay and the 98 percentile in protective instincts - he sounds like a guard dog.