The young man is Michael Oher and is an offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL. The story line follows how he went from being an impoverished nobody kid, going through foster homes to eventually finding his adoptive family Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy.
The movie is due out November 20th and is directed by John Lee Hancock. His fim is based on the nonfiction book "The Blind Side" by author Michael Lewis. The new edition to the book came out October 12th.
Says Hancock to the Baltimore Sun's reporter Michael Sragow:
"I'm a big Michael Lewis fan," says Hancock. "I was just 50 pages into 'The Blind Side' when I said, 'Gosh, this really is a movie.' " The first chapters plunge the reader into a sea change in NFL strategy - and the pressurized world of football team recruiters - before it even gets to the story of Oher's bizarre, unlikely entrance into the cushy Briarcrest school. Hancock saw Lewis' unconventional structure "not as an obstacle but as an opportunity. ... To me, it was all about the same thing: How did the stars align to shine so brightly on this one kid in the projects in Memphis?"
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute or CCAI, www.ccainstitute.org/twittered a link to the interview Sandra Bullock did with moviesonline about the movie and her role, one of the questions below.
Q: For Sandra and Quinton, what was it about this story that really resonated with you the most?
SANDRA: First of all, it was a beautifully executed book, especially for someone who’s been around football players her whole life and still knew nothing or cared anything about the game. By the end of the game, I was in such awe of what it takes to be an athlete and what the coaches contribute to these children’s lives, and how they support and push and inspire, and I had a real sense of jealousy that they got to experience that and I never did as an athlete or as someone who is able to be brought to that point. But even though I didn’t think I could make this movie, the inspiring part of this movie is, here’s this family that does this, didn’t do it because omeone was writing an article or a book or making a movie, did it because that’s where the instincts said this is what we’re going to do, and we’re going to give love and reach out a hand and everyone came and questioned them, of course. We don’t trust anyone who does anything nice. That’s just the sad world we live in. But they didn’t care, and they kept going and it makes you feel like you need to step up your game. So whatever wonderful actress was going to play Leigh Anne Tuohy, it was going to be an inspirational story of a true life story that we’re capable of so much more than we think we are, because we don’t really live in a world that supports the good that we could do. They all want us to do something bad, so it sells some papers or some news report.
www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_17492.html Read the full interview here.
In my opinion, its about time someone did something to highlight foster kids and the great things they can accomplish if only given the one thing they deserve as much as the rest of us, a loving home.
A great movie to take the family to and a great young man for your kids to look up to.
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