However it’s resolved, though, the legal rancor blows a rather sizable hole in the fairy-tale portrait of Michael Oher and the Tuohys that was painted by “The Blind Side.” Why does the ...

Of course America loved “The Blind Side,” the 2009 movie about a homeless and hapless Black teenager rescued from a bleak future by a wealthy, white family. It was based on the true story of ...

The story of Michael Oher and his benefactor Leigh Anne Tuohy told in the 2009 film “The Blind Side,” based on Michael Lewis’ 2006 book of the same name, became a Hollywood fairy tale in its ...

What kind of fidelity to the truth do you expect from Hollywood? The 2009 movie “The Blind Side” purports to tell the story of Michael Oher, a Black high school student rescued from poverty ...

In 2006, Michael Lewis wrote an enthralling bestseller, “The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game,” in which he related the story of Michael Oher, an athletically gifted Black teenager who grew up ...