The Outcast

In 2002 Sandra Bullock starred in Murder by Numbers. In this movie two high school kids, Justin and Richard, team up to perform the perfect murder. Both these high school students are rich and feel that no one cares about them. Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) is the detective that finds the girl the two boys’ murder. She deals with memories from the past as she is working on this case. Mayweather knows that these two boys killed the girl, but her partner thinks it is the school janitor. Through a series of events Mayweather manages to get her partner to believe her. Mayweather follows the boys to their hide out without her partner. When she arrives Justin is yelling at Richard that they need to give themselves up, but Richard will not listen. Mayweather busts in on them when they are about to kill each other. Richard takes off with the gun and tries to shoot Mayweather, but Justin jumps in front of her. Mayweather take Justin to safety, then takes off after Richard. Mayweather chases Richard onto the deck. The deck collapses and Richard falls off into the water and dies. Back up finally arrives and take Justin into custody, knowing that he was the one that pulled the trigger.

This was another amazing movie of Sandra Bullock’s. Her character was once again a tough cop, with a troubled background. She has to work through the pain and memories from her past, in order to solve the murder. This was an excellent movie of hers, but not one of my favorites.

Never back down

A Time to Kill was filmed in 1996. The movie starts out with two guys brutally beating a raping a young black girl named Tonya. Tonya’s father seeks help from Jake Brigance, a young white lawyer, to convict the men that raped his daughter. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, goes to the court house and opens fire and kills both the rapist.  Ellan Roark (Sandra Bullock) is a young college student that comes to Jake and asks to help with the case. The case continues, but much harm is brought to Jake and his family. The threats and attacks get to be too much that he has to send his wife and daughter away. When the trail is about to end Roark is kidnapped and taken to the middle of nowhere, where she is beaten and left for dead. She is saved by an informant, Tim. When Carl Lee’s last trail date comes up, he get up on the stand and tells the jury how he felt about his daughter beat and raped. When the jury comes back from making their decision, he is proclaimed not guilty.

This movie was excellent. Roark (Sandra Bullock) is a very strong willed lady. After being beaten she gets right back to doing her job on the case. She lets nothing stop her in this movie!

The Curse

Practical Magic was filmed in 1998. Sandra Bullock starred in it along with Nicole Kidman.  Sally (Sandra Bullock) and Gillian (Nicole Kidman) Owen have always been different from everyone else. When their parents die they go to live with their aunts, who were everything but typical. Their aunts taught them to believe in “practical magic”, but believing in the practical magic comes at a price. Many people of that town believed that the Owen’s were under curse. The curse is that the men that fall in love with them will die an ill-timed death. When they grow up the two sisters must fight the curse in order to be in love.

This movie was very good. Sandra’s character is a shy gal that has to fight off the curse in order to fall in love with a guy. She works hard to overcome the curse, but she has her setbacks. Determined to cure the curse once and for all she will stop at nothing to be able to be in love.  

No Past

In 1995 Sandra Bullock starred in the movie The Net. Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a Venice, California systems analyst who telecommutes with Cathedral Software in San Francisco. She does everything over the phone or computer, so she is never in contact with the outside world. One day her coworker sends her a floppy disk. Bennett and Dale, her coworker, decide to meet up, Dale dies in a plane crash while going to meet with Bennett. Bennett goes to Mexico to meet up with Delvin. Delvin hires a mugger to mug Bennett and get the floppy disk. She is running away, when she runs into rocks and goes into a comma. When she wakes, her life has been erased, no records of her exists. Bennett starts to investigate to floppy disks and winds up getting into trouble. Bennett is now wanted for murder.

Overall this was an excellent movie. Bennett has to overcome obstacles she is faced with, when all her records are erased. Being wanted for murder she must prove herself innocent without the help of Cathedral Software. Will she be able to free her name of murder?

Against All Odds

In 2009 Sandra Bullock starred in The Blind Side. In this movie Leigh (Sandra Bullock) takes in an African American; Michael Oher.  Michael has been living with a friend, and his friend has decided to get Michael into a Christian school. The school board has a difficult time letting Michael in; they finally let him in. One night after a basketball game, Michael is walking in the pouring rain, when Leigh and her family pull over and pick him up. Michael ends up spending the night in their house. Leigh finds out that Michael has no family, and invites him into her home and family. Michael struggles through school, but with the help of his new family he is able to bring up his grades. Michael joins the football team, and becomes a star player. It is finally time to choose a college, and many colleges want Michael on their team. With the help of his new little brother Michael and S.J go through the colleges to choose one. After college football, Michael goes on to play professional football.

Sandra Bullock is a very inspiring character in this movie. She takes a young man into home, without even knowing anything about him. With his horrible past, Michael learns to love his new family, and open up to each of them. This movie shows that even with horrible past, you can still find a loving family that will love you for who you are. This was an excellent movie, probably one of the few I have cried over.

Never Give Up Hope

In 1998 Sandra Bullock starred in the movie Hope Floats. In this movie Birdee (Sandra Bullock) finds out that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. When she finds out about the affair, leaves her husband, and moves back to her old town. When she moves back to town, everyone knows what had happened to her. The town’s people just rub the affair in her face. The one person that is there for her is an old time friend Justin. Justin tries to help her through this difficult time, but he is still in love with her from high school. With the help from Justin, Birdee is able to overcome her difficult time and get back on track with her life.

When it felt like her life was falling apart, Birdee returns home to get over everything that is happening. She has to overcome the affair her husband is having, but also the entire town; that won’t stay out of her business. I would definitely recommend this movie. This movie shows how even if you fill you are hitting rock bottom, there is always hope!

Where are they?

Miss Congeniality 2 was filmed in 2005 starring Sandra Bullock as Gracie Hart. After Gracie saves Miss USA, in the first movie, she now becomes the face of the FBI. She appears on televisions, magazines, and gets interviews to tell about saving Miss. USA. All this turns around when Miss United States (Heather Burns), and Stan Fields (William Shatner) are kidnapped while visiting Las Vegas. When Gracie finds out about the kidnapping she puts her glam and fame behind her to save her friends. She finally ends up finding her friends in the bottom of a ship, which is being used in a Las Vegas show.

Sandra’s character in this movie is a hard core cop. She gets back into her old habit of fighting crime and saving lives. She doesn’t like when people messes with her friends, and will do anything too save them.