From that moment, Michael improves dramatically, well enough to play at the college level. However, Michael appears to be hesitant to use his strength and size while practicing, Leigh Anne tells him, as an offensive lineman, he must protect his quarterback. Michael eventually improves his grades enough that he can play football at school. She is also told that, although he scored poorly in a career aptitude test, he ranked in the 98th percentile in "protective instincts". 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.
Collins replies that they cannot just throw Michael out. She later asks Collins how she feels about it. Slowly, Michael becomes a member of the Tuohy family Leigh Anne's friends question this and suggest that Collins might not be safe around him, but Leigh Anne criticizes them. He sees an eviction notice posted on the door, indicating that his mother is gone.
Later, Leigh Anne drives Michael to his biological mother's house. Seeing him walking away, she asks him to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her family. The next morning, Leigh Anne notices that Michael has left. 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. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking alone on the road, shivering in the cold without adequate clothing. After the game, Sean notices Michael picking up food discarded on the bleachers. Later, Leigh Anne and Sean watch their daughter Collins playing volleyball. The school staff tells Michael that his father has died, apparently due to an accident. SJ's mother, Leigh Anne, is a strong-minded interior designer and the wife of wealthy businessman Sean Sr. Michael is befriended by a younger student named Sean Tuohy Jr. Impressed by Mike's size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his poor academic record. His friend's father, on whose couch Michael has been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the football coach of Wingate Christian School, to help get his son and Michael enrolled. Seventeen-year-old Michael "Big Mike" Oher has been in foster care with different families in Tennessee, due to his biological mother's drug addiction, but every time he is placed in a new home, he runs back to her.
The film was the subject of controversy in 2023 when Oher alleged the Tuohys tricked him into signing a conservatorship agreement instead of legally adopting him, which prevented him from receiving royalties. Despite mixed reviews from critics, Bullock's performance was universally praised, leading to her winning the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role.
The film was a commercial success, grossing $309 million on a $29 million budget. It stars Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne, Tim McGraw as Sean, and Quinton Aaron as Oher. Based on the 2006 book of the same name by Michael Lewis, the film tells the story of Michael Oher, an football offensive lineman who overcame an impoverished upbringing to play in the National Football League (NFL) with the help of Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy. The Blind Side is a 2009 American sports drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock.
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