The legal saga surrounding the supposed profits garnered by the family whose life was turned into the Sandra Bullock (Academy Award winning) movie The Blind Side has taken another turn. Back in August, fans of the movie (itself based on a non-fiction book by Michael Lewis) were stunned when Michael Oher, the young man whose life … Read more
Producers of the Oscar-winning 2009 movie The Blind Side maintain that the onscreen depiction is neither a lie nor fake. Who would have thought 2009’s The Blind Side would be tied to one of the strangest entertainment stories of 2023? Earlier this month, former pro football player Michel Oher launched a lawsuit that claims Leigh … Read more
The inspirational and supposedly true story chronicled in the movie The Blind Side took a surprising and very sad turn in the last week, when the film’s real-life subject, Michael Oher, filed to end his legal relationship with his “adopted” parents, the Tuohys. According to author Michael Lewis’ book The Blind Side — which then became the basis … Read more
The Blind Side family attorney responds to Michael Oher’s allegations, calling them “offensive” and “ridiculous” Michael Oher was the subject of The Blind Side, a movie which followed a homeless and traumatized Black teenager who becomes an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of his caring adoptive parents played by … Read more
The Blind Side featured one of those incredible, only-in-the-movies feel-good stories — except it was supposedly based on reality (and a non-fiction book by Michael Lewis). In the film, Sandra Bullock plays Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose family helps a young man from the foster care system named Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) first find success at school and on … Read more
This was, for me, the start of “Afire,” thinking to myself, “What happened there?” The Americans, the French, and the Swedish—like Ingmar Bergman, with “Summer with Monika”—all have summer movies, which are so important. In summer movies, there’s no state, no parents, no school, no factory. We have a break in life and, in this … Read more