The Blind Side
“The Blind Side” written by John Lee Hancock is based on true life events about Baltimore Ravens NFL player, Michael Oher. This sport related comedy drama will not only warm your heart but can also change your perspective on love and family. It’s an excellent example of how one person can change their fate with determination and the moral support of others.
Michael Oher’s story begins with him occasionally homeless and staying with his inattentive drug addict mother in a broken home with a remote father. His luck turned as his dad’s friend helps him get into an all Christian private school where Coach Cotton sees potential in him as a future football star. As Michael looks for another place to sleep and keep warm, he is found by worrisome, overprotective mother Leigh Anne Tuophy who asked Michael where he was staying that night. Her motherly instincts took over and invited Michael to stay the night, despite her having no knowledge of his background. His one night stay turned into a long term close relationship between him and the Tuophy. He now lives with a family of four, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock), Sean (Tim McGraw), Collins (Lily Collins), and Mj Tuophy (Jae Head) and they help Michael carefully pick up the pieces that was originally broken from his past. The family aid Michael get on the right track by shaping him to be a football star, guided him to a better education and treating him as if he was blood; He began to live like a Tuophy.
Passionate and loving mother, Leigh Anne Tuophy is played by actress Sandra Bullock who has been in well known movies such as Gravity, Miss Congeniality, and many more. She plays a successful interior designer, a mother of two, and a loving wife to co-star Tim McGraw (Sean Tuophy). She demonstrates within this movie the realism of modern motherhood coupled with a compassion that stretch’s far beyond ones expectation of a typical foster parent scenario. Within the context of this relationship we see a schema
Michael Oher’s story begins with him occasionally homeless and staying with his inattentive drug addict mother in a broken home with a remote father. His luck turned as his dad’s friend helps him get into an all Christian private school where Coach Cotton sees potential in him as a future football star. As Michael looks for another place to sleep and keep warm, he is found by worrisome, overprotective mother Leigh Anne Tuophy who asked Michael where he was staying that night. Her motherly instincts took over and invited Michael to stay the night, despite her having no knowledge of his background. His one night stay turned into a long term close relationship between him and the Tuophy. He now lives with a family of four, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock), Sean (Tim McGraw), Collins (Lily Collins), and Mj Tuophy (Jae Head) and they help Michael carefully pick up the pieces that was originally broken from his past. The family aid Michael get on the right track by shaping him to be a football star, guided him to a better education and treating him as if he was blood; He began to live like a Tuophy.
Passionate and loving mother, Leigh Anne Tuophy is played by actress Sandra Bullock who has been in well known movies such as Gravity, Miss Congeniality, and many more. She plays a successful interior designer, a mother of two, and a loving wife to co-star Tim McGraw (Sean Tuophy). She demonstrates within this movie the realism of modern motherhood coupled with a compassion that stretch’s far beyond ones expectation of a typical foster parent scenario. Within the context of this relationship we see a schema