The sleeper of the year in the USA, along with Hangover in Las Vegas, has been the The Blind Side movie It takes 219 million dollars in the American market and only cost 29.
This film, along with The Proposition, have made Sandra Bullock the highest grossing actress of the past year.
The Blind Side, is a small drama, based on a real event, where a young adolescent from an unstructured black family, almost two meters tall and strong as a bull, ends up being welcomed by a well-formed family by a married couple, a daughter of about 15 years and a child of about 8 years. In addition, the family unknowingly, under the apparent naivety of the great boy, hides incredible athletic qualities to play American football.
If this film has succeeded in the USA, I imagine it must have been because it mixes the American dream, by which anyone can succeed in the country, with one of the sports with the most followers in the country: American football (like English Rugby but with protections and wilder).
If we remove the figure of Sandra Bullock from this film, we would be facing a desktop movie, those so good that Tele5 and Antena3 broadcast on weekends around 16:00 p.m. that, by the way, many of them are also there. based on a true event.
As a curiosity, images of the real Michael Oher and the family that welcomed him into their womb appear in the end credits without asking for anything in return.
Cinema News Rating: 5