

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. On the eve of Thanksgiving, Leigh Anne notices Michael walking alone on the road, shivering in the cold without adequate clothing. After the game, Sean notices Michael picking up food discarded 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. Michael is befriended by a younger student named Sean Tuohy Jr. Impressed by Mike's size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his poor academic record. His friend's father, on whose couch Michael has been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the football coach of Wingate Christian School, to help get his son and Michael enrolled. Seventeen-year-old Michael "Big Mike" Oher has been in foster care with different families in Tennessee, due to his mother's drug addiction, but 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.
