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• The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and offset-round NFL typhoon pick with the aid of a caring adult female and her family.

• Based on the truthful story of Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American, Michael Oher. Michael has no idea who his father is and his female parent is a drug addict. Michael has had trivial formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne shortly takes charge withal, equally is her nature, ensuring that the immature homo has every opportunity to succeed. When he expresses an interest in football game, she goes all out to help him, including giving the coach a few ideas on how best to use Michael's skills. They not only provide him with a loving home, but rent a tutor to help him meliorate his grades to the point where he would authorize for an NCAA Division I athletic scholarship. Michael Oher was the commencement-circular option of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2009 NFL typhoon.

• Seventeen year old Michael Oher, an extremely large, physically imposing black youth, grew upward in the projects in Memphis. He no longer lives with his drug addicted mother, but is in foster care when he isn't running away to sleep wherever else he can find. Out of circumstances including Coach Burt Cotton'due south belief that he would be an nugget to the schoolhouse's football program based solely on his size and seeing him motility, Michael is accepted into Wingate Christian Schoolhouse - an sectional private school - despite his abysmal 0.6 GPA. After Michael starts attention classes at Wingate, well-nigh of his teachers believe he is unteachable, except his scientific discipline teacher, Mrs. Boswell, who begins to empathize that he learns in a dissimilar fashion. Believing he is indeed homeless, Caucasian and staunch Republican Leigh Anne Tuohy - mother of Wingate students, teen Collins Tuohy and boyish S.J. Tuohy, and wife to Sean Tuohy, franchise possessor of several Taco Bell'due south - invites Michael to stay in the Tuohy'southward upscale home for the dark. Only that i night slowly extends itself both in terms of time and emotion as the Tuohys brainstorm to care for Michael like one of the family and vice versa. Part of that emotional investment for Leigh Anne is fully understanding Michael as a person so that he tin can fulfill his potential as a human being, which includes giving him opportunities such as what Motorbus Cotton initially saw in Michael equally a potential left tackle. Potential issues include Michael'due south poor academic standing which may prohibit him from participating in extracurricular activities at the school, his learning disability which may extend to other aspects of his life beyond his schooling, whether he actually can play football game, and authorities questioning Leigh Anne and all the Tuohy's motivations in inviting Michael into their domicile and family.

• Michael Oher, a homeless blackness teen, has drifted in and out of the schoolhouse system for years.Then Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband, Sean Tuohy, take him in. The Tuohys eventually become Michael'due south legal guardians, transforming both his life and theirs. Michael's tremendous size and protective instincts make him a formidable force on the gridiron, and with help from his new family unit and devoted tutor, he realizes his potential as a educatee and football role player.

• A poor, oversized and nether-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football game program where he is clean-cut into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect.

• "The Bullheaded Side" depicts the story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same fourth dimension, Oher'due south presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environs, the teen faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome. As a football player and educatee, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.

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• The Blind Side is based on the remarkable truthful story of Baltimore Ravens' offensive left tackle Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron). Michael grew up in the inner city housing projects with his mother in Memphis, Tennessee aptly named "Hurt Village." Michael's story begins with his being homeless and coming from a broken home with a drug-addicted female parent, and an absentee begetter. Because of his family unit circumstances, Family Services took control of his life equally he was growing upwardly. Unfortunately, he was beingness bounced around in and out of foster homes, and at present as a teenager he finds himself discarded by the people he has been living with. By a stroke of luck, and the coach'south wish for a player the size of Michael, he ends upward existence enrolled in a private Christian school where the Tuohy kids become. Michael is a quiet person. He is shown to take a kind of childlike personality, because he tries to play with kindergarten children (Rachel St. Gelais) who reject or ignore him. Michael is befriended by Southward.J. Tuohy (Jae Head), the youngest Tuohy, whose connection to Michael starts the ball rolling.

  Mike, having no money for food, lives by scrounging half-empty containers of snacks afterwards schoolhouse games, which Mr. Tuohy notices, subsequently which he pays for a meal ticket for the male child. One icy wintertime night, as Michael is walking downward the road to the school gym, where he has been sleeping; Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) with her husband Sean (Tim McGraw) and children JS.J. and Collins (Lily Collins), pick Michael up and take him home for the night. Yet, when he tries to get out in the morning, Leigh Anne insists that he stay for dinner, and the children take Michael matter-of-factly. Soon, Leigh Anne offers him a room and bed. As she starts offering him greater and greater favours, she begins to research Michael's records, including his career aptitude test results, where the merely positive score was on protective instincts. Leigh Anne will use that to explain him how to play in the field. Up to that moment, he wasn't able to get the hang of the game and its rules, and he wasn't able to empathise what his role on the field was.

  From that moment, Michael starts to play well and be useful to his team. At the traditional Christmas card photograph of that year, Leigh Anne invites him to announced in the family photo. Leigh Anne'southward friends Beth (Rhoda Griffs), Elaine (Eaddy Mays) and Sherry (Ashley LeConte Campbell) encounter regularly at a local expensive eating place. The friends laugh near Leigh Anne's "project in the projects," but she cuts them off, saying that if they don't respect what she does, she volition end seeing them.

  An opportunity arises for Michael to play at university level. Withal, he needs his grades to improve, so the Tuohys hire a private tuition teacher, outspoken and kind Miss Sue (Kathy Bates), who is adamant to succeed, because she, like Mrs. Tuohy, wants him to play for Ole Miss. During their Geography lesson, she makes a remark about University of Tennessee burying the body parts of expressionless people under their football field, which Michael seems to believe blindly. While he had been leaning toward Tennessee, this event decides him ultimately to sign on with Old Miss.

  There comes a moment when Leigh Anne wants to accept a face-to-face conversation with Michael'southward female parent (Adriane Lenox) to enable her to adopt Michael. Although she seems unresponsive in the beginning, the mother finally wishes Michael the best. She says that social services had branded Michael "a runner," and she forecasts that Leigh Anne will find one twenty-four hours that he has run abroad for skillful without giving whatever previous detect. Leigh Anne also faces some tough guys from the projects who had fabricated ugly insinuations about her before. They are left speechless when she threatens them and is not agape of them at all.

  Many universities want Michael to play on their teams. Southward.J. talks to the coaches, and leads the negotiations on Michael'south behalf-- and his own. When Michael gets his grades high plenty, he must make a decision, and he does. He chooses the academy where Sean had played for, and where Leigh Anne had been a cheerleader. That causes Investigator Granger (Sharon Morris) to motility onto the matter before Michael arrives at that place. She questions him as though they were holding interrogatory preceding at a police station. She thinks that the Tuohys and Miss Sue are using Michael to benefit Ole Miss, their alma mater.

  Michael runs away before the interview is over, and goes to notice his birth mother. The leader of the tough guys welcomes him dorsum to Injure Hamlet, offers him a beer, and insinuates that Michael has had sexual relations with Leigh Anne or her daughter. This rouses Michael'southward protective instincts, as the gang leader threatens to go after the two ladies himself. Michael shoves him into a wall, knocking his gun aside. After thinking and questioning Leigh Ann on the matter, Michael realizes that the Tuohys are now his family unit, and tells Granger that that's the reason for him to choose that Ole Miss.

  The film ends saying that he'll succeed and go a professional player later on. South.J in seen leading the players onto the gamefield with Michael before all local games.

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