Aug 4 2009 'Blind Side' Trailer: Sandra Bullock is Our Greatest Trophy Wife

Trailer for The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock as a rich suburbanite with a spotty Southern accent who takes in a giant inner city kid, providing the disadvantaged youth with his first bed, and first rugby shirt.

Sample dialogue:

"You're changin' that boy's life."

"No... He's changin' mine."

If you still, for some reason, want to continue on, even with the knowledge that S.B. will have that sickly sweet exchange, here's the trailer. Try to explain to me what circumstances might lead to the scene where foster son and biological son give each other a high five over a table covered in condiments:

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Dec 10 2008 I Do Not Accept This 'Proposal' (Trailer)

I don't expect much from a Ryan Reynolds/Sandra Bullock romantic-comedy directed by 27 Dresses' Anne Fletcher (a woman apparently fixated on getting married). Bullock is a horrible boss about to get deported; Reynolds is a guy desperate to keep his job; they're forced to get married and fake domesticity; they hate each other until they fall in love. That's a concept just broad enough to ignore.

I would have let that fly as another hollow but innocent attempt at fusing romance and comedy, The Proposal, but you got greedy. What is this part where the U.S. government insists Sandra Bullock meets and wins over Ryan Reynolds family? Is this a law now? "You may get married and give her a green card, but I insist she first meets your unusual family." I believe they might check that they were co-habitating or something, but this meet the parents thing seems silly. I don't remember that being a condition in the short-lived Head of the Class spin-off, Billy. Am I missing something in this?

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