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The Eye on Movies: "The Blind Side" Hits the Mark

Published - Nov 20 2009 18:37 PM

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As just about anyone with a television set knows by now, "The Blind Side" (based on the wonderful book by Michael Lewis) is the basically true story of a very large, very athletic young black man who is semi-adopted by an evangelical white family in ... Read Full Story

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