The legal battle between former NFL star Michael Oher and the white Tennessee family who took him in, as portrayed in the fictionalization of their lives in the 2009 movie “The Blind Side,” has renewed conversations about a common film trope: the white savior. When “The Blind Side” hit theaters, it was hailed as both… Continue reading Why Hollywood embraced white savior movies like ‘The Blind Side’
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‘The Blind Side’ author says no one made massive profits from movie, calls suit ‘breathtaking’
The author of “The Blind Side,” Michael Lewis, says he’s saddened by the lawsuit breaking up former NFL star Michael Oher and the Tuohy family — the subjects of his best-selling book-turned-movie. Oher, 37, alleged in a bombshell court filing Monday that he had never actually been adopted by Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy,… Continue reading ‘The Blind Side’ author says no one made massive profits from movie, calls suit ‘breathtaking’
‘The Blind Side’ Tuohy family promoted adoption. Michael Oher says his was a lie.
Michael Oher, the former NFL star whose life story inspired Oscar-winning film “The Blind Side,” says he genuinely believed he’d been adopted by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy after they took him in as a teenager in Memphis, Tennessee. With a mother who struggled with drug abuse, Oher often found himself without a stable home… Continue reading ‘The Blind Side’ Tuohy family promoted adoption. Michael Oher says his was a lie.
Michael Oher, ‘Blind Side’ subject, alleges adoption by Tuohys was a lie
Former NFL star Michael Oher, subject of the book and movie “The Blind Side,” alleges that the couple who took him in as a teenager misled him into believing they were adopting him — and instead placed him in a conservatorship, according to a court filing Monday. “The lie of Michael’s adoption is one upon… Continue reading Michael Oher, ‘Blind Side’ subject, alleges adoption by Tuohys was a lie