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Vacation
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Jonathan Goldstein
John Francis Daley
Produced by
David Dobkin
Chris Bender
Written by
Jonathan Goldstein
John Francis Daley
Based on
Characters
by John Hughes
Starring
Ed Helms
Christina Applegate
Leslie Mann
Beverly D'Angelo
Ron Livingston
Skyler Gisondo
Steele Stebbins
Chris Hemsworth
Chevy Chase
Music by
Mark Mothersbaugh
Cinematography
Barry Peterson
Edited by
Jamie Gross
Production
company
New Line Cinema[1]
BenderSpink[1]
Big Kid Pictures[1]
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
July 29, 2015 (2015-07-29)
Running time
99 minutes[2][3]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$31 million[4]
Box office
$104.9 million[5]
Vacation is a 2015 American comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley (in their directorial debuts). It stars Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins, Leslie Mann, Chris Hemsworth, Beverly D'Angelo, and Chevy Chase. It is the fifth installment of the Vacation film series, serving as a soft reboot. It is also the second not to carry the National Lampoon name after Vegas Vacation, and was released by New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. on July 29, 2015. It has an approval rating of 26% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $104 million on a $31 million budget.[5]
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production
3.1 Development
3.2 Casting
3.3 Filming
3.4 Music
4 Release
5 Reception
5.1 Box office
5.2 Critical response
5.3 Accolades
6 References
7 External links
Plot[edit]
Rusty Griswold is now an adult working as a pilot for a low budget regional airline called Econo-Air, and shares a stale relationship with his wife Debbie and their two children, their shy and awkward 14-year-old son James, and their intimidating 12-year-old son Kevin. The gloating from his friends Jack and Nancy Peterson about a family trip they had in Paris doesn't help his situation. He desires to relive the fun of his family vacations and holiday gatherings from his childhood. These memories prompt him to abandon his family's annual trip to their cabin in Cheboygan, Michigan and instead drive cross country to Walley World, just like he did with his parents and sister. For the trip, Rusty rents a Tartan Prancer, an ugly, over-complicated Albanian SUV.
Along the way, the Griswolds take many detours. The first is Memphis, where it's revealed that the otherwise mild-mannered Debbie was an extremely promiscuous Tri Pi sorority sister in college nicknamed 'Debbie Do Anything' even when they meet a sorority member named Heather. To prove that she was the rebellious student, Debbie soon runs an obstacle course whilst drunk and fails miserably. While staying at a motel, James meets Adena, a girl his age that he saw while driving on the highway, but she is scared away by Rusty's failed attempts to be a "wingman".
In Arkansas, they are led to a supposedly hidden hot spring by a "helpful" local, eventually realizing that it's a sewage dump. They return to their SUV, only to see it's been broken into, their luggage and cash stolen, and then sprayed with graffiti.
They stop in Texas to get help from Rusty's sister, Audrey, and her husband, Stone. Rusty begins to suspect problems in his relationship with Debbie due to her seeming acceptance of Stone's obviously outward sexual advances, but she rebuffs his suspicions. One night, Stone walks in on the couple and makes a show of his attractive body and oversized genitalia.
Spending the following night at an Arizona campsite, Rusty and Debbie sneak away to attempt to have sex at the Four Corners Monument, where officers from all four states confront the couple and each other, allowing them to escape. James finally asserts himself against Kevin with encouragement from Adena, who they encounter again. The next morning, after nearly getting killed by a suicidal Grand Canyon rafting guide. Following this, the SUV runs out of gas in the middle of the desert Rusty's misunderstanding of the key fob causes it to explode, leading Rusty to think about the disastrous trip and walk off dispirited and alone. After being tracked-down by a seemingly unstable truck driver, who they think has been stalking them throughout the trip, he instead returns Debbie's missing wedding ring and gives them a lift to San Francisco, where they spend the night at a bed and breakfast run by Rusty's parents, Clark and Ellen. They intend to fly home the next day, but Rusty and Debbie confront each other about their stale marriage and decide to start over again.
With some encouragement from Clark the next morning, Rusty borrows his father's Wagon Queen Family Truckster and drives Debbie and the boys to Walley World to ride their newest roller coaster, Velociraptor. After spending the entire day waiting in line, they are cut off by Ethan, a rival of Rusty's, and his family before the announcement of the park's closing. A fight breaks out, which the Griswolds win, forcing the other family to flee. The Griswolds finally board the ride, but it stalls halfway up a loop, and they are rescued after several hours.
Rusty uses his airline connections to book a vacation in Paris alone with Debbie, while sending the boys home where the Petersons will look after them. On the plane to Paris, they are seated in jump seats next to a lavatory. Exasperated, Debbie learns that it will be a 12-hour flight.
Cast[edit]
Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold
Christina Applegate as Debbie Fletcher Griswold
Skyler Gisondo as James Griswold
Steele Stebbins as Kevin Griswold
Chris Hemsworth as Stone Crandall
Leslie Mann as Audrey Griswold-Crandall
Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold
Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold
Catherine Missal as Adena
Ron Livingston as Ethan
Charlie Day as Chad
Norman Reedus as Trucker
Keegan-Michael Key as Jack Peterson
Regina Hall as Nancy Peterson
Elizabeth Gillies as Heather Monroe
Tim Heidecker as Utah Cop
Nick Kroll as Colorado Cop
Kaitlin Olson as Arizona Cop
Michael Peña as New Mexico Cop
Hannah Davis as The Girl in the Red Ferrari
David Clennon as Co-Pilot
Colin Hanks as Jake
Ryan Cartwright as Terry
John Francis Daley as Robert
Production[edit]
Development[edit]
In February 2010, it was announced by New Line Cinema (owned by Warner Bros., which released the previous films) that a new Vacation film was being produced.[6] Executive Producer was Steven Mnuchin. Produced by David Dobkin and written by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the story focuses on Rusty Griswold as he takes his own family to Walley World.[7]
Casting[edit]
In July 2012, it was announced that Ed Helms would star in the sequel as Rusty Griswold, who now has his own family misadventures on the road.[8] On March 28, 2013, Variety announced that original series stars Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase were in talks to reprise their roles, most likely in the form of a torch-passing cameo role.[9] No mention was made of other series regulars, such as Randy Quaid's Cousin Eddie.[7]
On April 23, 2013, it was reported that the film had been delayed indefinitely, due to creative differences.[10] Later, Chris Hemsworth and Charlie Day were also reported to co-star.[11] Skyler Gisondo and Steele Stebbins played Rusty Griswold's sons along with Helms and Christina Applegate.[12] On September 15, Leslie Mann joined the film to play Rusty's sister, Audrey Griswold.[13] On September 29, Keegan-Michael Key and Regina Hall were cast to play family friends of the Griswolds.[14]
On October 10, director Daley revealed in an interview that he might have a cameo with Samm Levine and Martin Starr, which would be a reunion of cult comedy show Freaks and Geeks, though it was not confirmed.[15] On November 12, four actors joined to play Four Corners cops, Tim Heidecker, Nick Kroll, Kaitlin Olson, and Michael Peña.[16]
Filming[edit]
Principal photography began on September 16, 2014, in Atlanta, Georgia.[17][18] On September 16, scenes were filmed on location at the Olympic Flame Restaurant.[19]
The Twelve Oaks during filming
On September 30 and October 1, 2014, scenes were filmed on location at The Twelve Oaks Bed and Breakfast in historic Covington, Georgia.[20] The Twelve Oaks was staged as Christina Applegate's character's sorority house, Triple Pi, and the location of her attempt to run the obstacle course once more to prove that she is the Chug Run champion.
Other scenes were shot around Piedmont and 6th avenues from October 6 to 8, including at the Shellmont Inn.[19][21] On October 22, 2014, scenes were filmed at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.[22] Scenes for Walley World were filmed at Six Flags Over Georgia.[23] The coaster in this movie called Velociraptor is originally the Ninja, created by the Dutch coaster designer Vekoma BV.
In a similar vein to the original film's "Wagon Queen Family Truckster", the film features a custom-designed minivan named the "Tartan Prancer". Dubbed the "Honda of Albania", it is a heavily modified Toyota Previa[24] and features unconventional styling elements such as a mirror-image front and rear clip, complete with two sets of headlights (pulled from the Land Rover LR3/Discovery) and rearview mirrors, as well as dashboard buttons marked by nonsensical symbols. As part of a promotional tie-in with the film, Edmunds.com released a tongue-in-cheek review comparing the Tartan Prancer against the 2015 Honda Odyssey.[25]
Music[edit]
The musical score for the film was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh.[26] A soundtrack album was released by WaterTower Music on July 24, 2015.[27] In addition to Mothersbaugh's score, it features many contemporary songs, along with several renditions of Lindsey Buckingham's "Holiday Road" (including a remixed and remastered version of the original that plays at the start of the film, and again near the end).[28]
Release[edit]
The film was originally set to be released on October 9, 2015, but it was moved to July 31, 2015,[29] before finally being pushed up to July 29, 2015, the 32nd anniversary of the release of the first Vacation film.[30] Warner Bros. spent a total of $35.2 million on advertisement for the film.[31]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
Vacation grossed $58.9 million in North America and $45.8 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $104.7 million, against a budget of $31 million.[5]
The film grossed $1.2 million from its early Tuesday preview showings, and a combined $6.3 million on Wednesday and Thursday. In its opening weekend, it grossed $14.7 million, finishing second at the box office behind Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ($55.5 million).[32]
Critical response[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 26% based on 158 reviews and an average rating of 4/10. The site's consensus reads, "Borrowing a basic storyline from the film that inspired it but forgetting the charm, wit, and heart, Vacation is yet another nostalgia-driven retread that misses the mark."[33] On Metacritic, it has a score of 34 out of 100 based on 33 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[34] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.[35]
Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times gave the film a positive review and praised the Kevin Griswold character, saying, "The kid with the potty mouth may cost Warner Bros. some business at the box office, but in a strange way he elevates Vacation, a very funny R-rated movie with a PG-13 heart."[36] Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave it a "B-" rating and wrote, "The new Vacation is both better than I'd feared and not as hilarious as I'd hoped. It's intermittently funny and instantly forgettable."[37] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "It's a vile, odious disaster populated with unlikable, dopey characters bumbling through mean-spirited set pieces that rely heavily on slapstick fight scenes, scatological sight gags and serial vomiting."[38] Rolling Stone reviewer Peter Travers gave it 1.5 out of five stars, saying: "Leslie Mann and wild-card Chris Hemsworth, as her cock-flashing hubby, get the heartiest hoots. The rest is comic history warmed over."[39]
Accolades[edit]
Award
Category
Nominee
Result
Ref.
Golden Raspberry Awards Worst Supporting Actor Chevy Chase Nominated [40][41]
MTV Movie Awards Best Kiss Leslie Mann and Chris Hemsworth Nominated [42]
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The Blind Side (film)
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This article is about the 2009 feature film about an American football player. For other films of the same name, see The Blind Side.
The Blind Side
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
John Lee Hancock
Produced by
Broderick Johnson
Andrew Kosove
Gil Netter
Screenplay by
John Lee Hancock
Based on
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
by Michael Lewis
Starring
Sandra Bullock
Tim McGraw
Quinton Aaron
Jae Head
Lily Collins
Ray McKinnon
Kathy Bates
Music by
Carter Burwell
Cinematography
Alar Kivilo
Edited by
Mark Livolsi
Production
company
Alcon Entertainment
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
November 20, 2009 (2009-11-20)
Running time
126 minutes[1]
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$29 million[1]
Box office
$309.2 million[1]
The Blind Side is a 2009 American biographical sports drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.[2][3] The storyline features Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through his years at Wingate Christian School (a fictional representation of Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee),[4] his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football, then finally becoming a first-round pick of the Ravens.
Quinton Aaron stars as Michael Oher, alongside Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy, and Kathy Bates as Miss Sue, Oher's tutor.[2] The film also features appearances by several current and former NCAA coaches, including Houston Nutt, Ed Orgeron, Nick Saban, Lou Holtz, Tommy Tuberville, and Phillip Fulmer.[5]
The Blind Side grossed over $300 million. Bullock went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, which was considered a surprise for the producers and led the Academy to change their requirements for Best Picture nominations.
Contents
1 Plot
2 Cast
2.1 Coaches playing themselves
3 Production
4 Reception
4.1 Box office
4.2 Critical response
4.2.1 Race controversy
4.3 Awards and nominations
4.3.1 Best Picture nomination
5 Soundtrack
6 Home media
7 References
8 External links
Plot[edit]
The film opens with seventeen-year-old Michael ("Big Mike") Oher talking to an NCAA investigator. Then a flashback ensues.
Michael has been in foster care with different families in Memphis, Tennessee, due to his mother's drug addiction. Every time he is placed in a new home, he runs away. His friend's father, on whose couch Mike had been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the coach of Wingate Christian School, to help enroll his son and Mike. Impressed by Mike's size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his poor academic record. Later, Michael is befriended by a younger student named Sean Jr. ("SJ"). SJ's mother, Leigh Anne Tuohy, is a strong-minded interior designer and the wife of wealthy businessman Sean Tuohy.
The school staff tell Michael that his father has died, apparently due to an accident. Later, Leigh Anne and Sean watch their daughter Collins playing volleyball. After the game, Sean notices Michael picking up leftover food on the bleachers.
One night, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking alone on the moist road, shivering in the cold without adequate clothing. When she learns that he plans to spend the night huddled outside the closed school gym, Leigh Anne offers to let him sleep on the couch in the Tuohy home.
The next morning, Leigh Anne notices that Michael has left. Seeing him walking away, she asks him to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her family. Slowly, Michael becomes a member of the family. Later, Leigh Anne drives Michael to his mother's house. He sees an eviction notice posted on the door, and his mother is gone.
Leigh Anne's friends wonder what she is doing; they suggest that Collins might not be safe around Michael, but Leigh Anne rebukes them. She later asks Collins how she feels about it. Collins replies that they cannot just throw Michael out. When Leigh Anne seeks to become Michael's legal guardian, she learns he was taken from his drug-addict mother when he was seven and that no one knows her whereabouts. She is also told that, although he scored poorly in a career aptitude test, he was ranked in the 98th percentile in "protective instincts". When Michael appears to be hesitant to use his strength and size while learning to play football, Leigh Anne tells him, as an offensive lineman, he must protect his quarterback. From that moment, Michael improves drastically, well enough to play at the college level. However, to do that, he must meet the minimum grade point average to get in so the Tuohys hire a private tutor for him, the outspoken and kind Miss Sue.
Leigh Anne has a face-to-face conversation with Michael's mother about adopting him. Although she seems unresponsive in the beginning, the mother finally wishes Michael the best.
Michael is heavily recruited by many prestigious schools. SJ talks to coaches and negotiates on Michael's behalf – and his own. When Michael gets his grades high enough, he decides to attend Ole Miss, where Sean had played and Leigh Anne had been a cheerleader. That causes NCAA investigator Granger to look into the matter to determine if the Tuohys took him in and unduly influenced him just so he would play for their alma mater.
Michael runs away before the interview is over and confronts Leigh Anne about her motives for taking him in. He then proceeds to find his biological mother in Hurt Village. A gang leader welcomes him back, offers him a beer, and makes sexually offensive insinuations about Leigh Anne and Collins. When the gang leader threatens to go after them, Michael battles with him and other thugs. After thinking things over and questioning Leigh Anne, Michael tells Granger he chose Ole Miss because "it's where my family goes to school". Michael is accepted into college and says his farewells to the Tuohy family.
The film ends with information about and photos of the real Tuohy family and Michael Oher, who went on to play in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft.
Cast[edit]
Sandra Bullock in 2010 after receiving the SAG award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Quinton Aaron as Michael "Big Mike" Oher
Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy
Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy
Jae Head as Sean "S.J." Tuohy, Jr.
Lily Collins as Collins Tuohy
Kathy Bates as Miss Sue
Ray McKinnon as Coach Burt Cotton
Kim Dickens as Mrs. Boswell
Adriane Lenox as Denise Oher
Eaddy Mays as Elaine
Robert "IronE" Singleton as Alton
Coaches playing themselves[edit]
Tommy Tuberville, the coach of Auburn
Nick Saban, the coach of Louisiana State
Lou Holtz, the coach of South Carolina
Phillip Fulmer, the coach of Tennessee
Houston Nutt, the coach of Arkansas
Ed Orgeron, the coach of Ole Miss
Production[edit]
The Blind Side was produced by Alcon Entertainment and released by Warner Bros. The film's production budget was $29 million.[1] Filming for the school scenes took place at Atlanta International School and The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, and it features many of their students as extras. The film premiered on November 17 in New York City and New Orleans and opened in theaters on November 20 in the rest of the United States and in Canada.[6]
Academy Award winner Julia Roberts was originally offered Bullock's role, but turned it down.[7] Bullock initially turned down the starring role three times due to discomfort with portraying a devout Christian. By her own account, Bullock felt she couldn't objectively represent such a person's beliefs on screen.[8] But after a visit with the real Leigh Anne Tuohy, Bullock not only won the role, but also took a pay cut and agreed to receive a percentage of the profits instead.[9]
Reception[edit]
Box office[edit]
The Blind Side opened in 3,110 theaters on its opening weekend, the weekend of November 20, 2009. It grossed a strong $34,510,000 in its opening weekend, the second highest gross of that weekend, behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon. It was the highest-grossing opening weekend of Sandra Bullock's career. The per-theater average for The Blind Side's opening weekend was $11,096.[10] In its opening weekend, the movie already earned more than its $29 million production budget. It proved to have remarkable staying power, taking in an additional $9.5 million, bringing its gross to $60,125,000 by the weekend of November 27, 2009.[11] The movie enjoyed a rare greater success for the second weekend than it did in its opening weekend, taking in an estimated $40 million, an increase of 18 percent, from November 27 to November 29, 2009, coming in second to New Moon once again, bringing its gross to $100,250,000.[1]
In its third weekend, the movie continued its trend of rare feats by moving up to the number one position with $20.4 million in sales after spending the previous two weekends in second place for a total gross of $128.8 million, due to strong word-of-mouth.[12] In its fourth weekend, it moved down to second place, dropping a slim 23% with an estimated $15.5 million for a total of $150.2 million in the United States and Canada as of December 13, 2009.[13] The film hit $200 million domestically on January 1, 2010, marking the first time a movie marketed with a sole actress' name above the title (Bullock's) has crossed the $200 million mark.[14] The Blind Side has also become the highest grossing football movie and sports drama of all time domestically [15][16] unadjusted for ticket inflation.[17] The Blind Side ended its domestic theatrical run on June 4, 2010 (nearly 7 months after it opened), earning a total of $255,959,475.[18] In the UK and Ireland, The Blind Side was released on March 26, 2010.[19] It was the third biggest release of that weekend behind Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.[20]
Critical response[edit]
The film received moderately positive reviews, with critics praising Sandra Bullock's performance. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 69%, based on 196 reviews, with a rating average of 6.1/10. The site's general consensus reads, "It might strike some viewers as a little too pat, but The Blind Side has the benefit of strong source material and a strong performance from Sandra Bullock."[21] Metacritic, which assigned a normalized score of 53 out of 100, based on reviews from 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[22] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare "A+" grade.[23]
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Race controversy[edit]
The Blind Side has been criticized as presenting a white savior narrative in which Oher, an African-American male, is unable to overcome poverty and personal failure without the guidance of adoptive, white mother Tuohy. For example, Jeffrey Montez de Oca of the University of Colorado writes that in The Blind Side's portrayal of adoption, "charity operates as a signifying act of whiteness that obscures the social relations of domination that not only make charity possible but also creates an urban underclass in need of charity."[24] Melissa Anderson of the Dallas Observer argues that the "mute, docile" portrayal of Oher effectively endorses the Uncle Tom stereotype of African-American submission to white authority.[25]
Oher was later quoted as saying that "It's a great story. It seems like they helped me to get to this point. They're my family and without them I wouldn't be here," and "They taught me a lot of things, showed me a lot of different things. It shows that if you help somebody and give somebody a chance and don't judge people, look where they can get to."[26]
However, Oher was openly critical of the film's portrayal of him being taught the methods of football throughout the film, where in reality, he had always known the sport his whole life.[citation needed]
Awards and nominations[edit]
The Blind Side has earned numerous awards and nominations for the lead performance of the film's star, Sandra Bullock.
Association
Category
Nominee
Result
Academy Awards Best Picture Gil Netter, Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson Nominated
Best Actress in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock Won
Critics’ Choice Awards Best Actress Won
Golden Globe Awards Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama Won
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Won
People's Choice Awards Favorite Movie Actress Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Actress Nominated
Teen Choice Awards Movie Actress – Drama Won
Breakout Male Actor Quinton Aaron Nominated
Favorite Drama Movie The Blind Side Won
ESPY Awards Best Sports Movie Won
Movieguide Awards Best Movie for Mature Audiences
Epiphany Prize for Inspiring Movies The Blind Side Won[27]
Best Picture nomination[edit]
The nomination of The Blind Side for Best Picture was considered a surprise, even to its producers.[28] In an attempt to revitalize interest surrounding the awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had upped the number of Best Picture nominees from a mandatory number of five to ten in time for the 82nd Academy Awards, the year The Blind Side was nominated.[29] However, in 2011, the Academy changed the policy, stating that the Best Picture category would feature between five and ten nominees depending on voting results, as opposed to a set number of nominees.[30][not in citation given] The change was interpreted as a response to films like The Blind Side being nominated for Best Picture to fill up the set number of spots.[31][32]
Soundtrack[edit]
The movie features 23 songs by artists including Les Paul, Young MC, Lucy Woodward, The Books, Canned Heat, Five for Fighting, and the film's co-star Tim McGraw.[33] However, while the score soundtrack by Carter Burwell was released on CD, none of the featured songs were included.
Home media[edit]
The Blind Side was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 23, 2010. The Blind Side was available exclusively for rental from Blockbuster for 28 days.[34]
Redbox and Netflix customers had to wait 28 days before they were able to rent the movie.[35][36] This stems from the settlement of a lawsuit brought by Redbox against Warner Home Video, who, in an attempt to boost DVD sales, refused to sell wholesale titles to Redbox. On August 19, 2009 Redbox sued Warner Home Video[37] to continue purchasing DVD titles at wholesale prices. On February 16, 2010, Redbox settled the lawsuit[36] and agreed to a 28-day window past the street date.
As of July 9, 2013, units sold for the DVD stand at more than 8.4 million copies and has grossed a further $107,962,159 adding to its total gross.[38]
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