I was pleasantly surprised by this. It had received overwhelmingly good reviews, but I still thought it would be overly schmaltzy and happy and meh. It was those things, except meh. Sandra was pretty awesome, and her little son stood out as well. As did her big adopted son. The script was pretty tight, witty, and flowed perfectly. I didn’t know much about the true story except that he is now in the NFL, so I didn’t really see every bit of it coming. I watched this 2 weeks ago and slacked on the review so I don’t have a ton of details, but I’ll say it was deserving of the attention it received, maybe not a Best Picture nomination, but it was only in there because of the stupid 10 film rule that year.
