SJ talks to coaches and negotiates on Michael's behalf-and his own. Michael is heavily recruited by many prestigious schools. Although she seems unresponsive in the beginning, the mother finally wishes Michael the best.

Leigh Anne has a face-to-face conversation with Michael's mother about adopting him. However, to do that, he must meet the minimum grade point average to get in so the Tuohys hire a private tutor for him, the outspoken and kind Miss Sue. From that moment, Michael improves dramatically, well enough to play at the college level. When Michael appears to be hesitant to use his strength and size while learning to play football, Leigh Anne tells him, as an offensive lineman, he must protect his quarterback, just like he intends to do to his family. She is also told that, although he scored poorly in a career aptitude test, he was 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 Michael, 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 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. One night, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking alone on the road, shivering in the cold without adequate clothing. After the game, Sean notices Michael picking up leftover food 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. Later, Michael is befriended by a younger student named Sean Tuohy, Jr./'SJ'. Impressed by Mike's size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his poor academic record. His friend's father, Tony 'Big Tony' Hamilton, on whose couch Mike has been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the football coach of Wingate Christian School, to help enroll his son and Mike. Seventeen-year-old Michael 'Big Mike' Oher has been in foster care with different families in Tennessee, due to his mother's drug addiction and every time he is placed in a new home, he runs back to her. The film also received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Bullock also won 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.

Despite mixed reviews from critics, Bullock's performance was universally praised, leading to her winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film was a commercial success, grossing $309 million on a $29 million budget. It stars Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy, 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 American football offensive lineman who overcame an impoverished upbringing to play in the National Football League (NFL) with the help of his adoptive parents Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.

The Blind Side is a 2009 American biographical sports drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock.

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