Later, Michael is befriended by a younger student named Sean Jr. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism, Cotton gets him admitted despite his poor academic record. His friend’s father, on whose couch Mike had been sleeping, asks Burt Cotton, the coach of Wingate Christian School, to help enroll his son and Mike. Every time he is placed in a new home, he runs away.
Michael has been in foster care with different families in Oslo, Tennessee, due to his mother’s drug addiction. The film opens with seventeen-year-old Michael (“Big Mike”) Oher talking to an NCAA investigator. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, in the first year that the rules required a mandatory number of ten (previously five) Best Picture nominees, with the nomination considered a surprise by the producers the Academy later changed their mandatory requirement to now allow “up to” ten nominees. Bullock went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. The Blind Side grossed over $300 million. The film also features appearances by several current and former NCAA coaches, including Houston Nutt, Ed Orgeron, Nick Saban, Lou Holtz, Tommy Tuberville, and Phillip Fulmer. Quinton Aaron stars as Michael Oher, alongside Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy, Tim McGraw as Sean Tuohy, and Kathy Bates as Miss Sue, Oher’s tutor. Novem: USA (New York City, New York) (premiere).ABC Family / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / Argentina Video Home / Audio Visual Entertainment / Channel 5 Television / Film1 / SBS6 / Sandrew Metronome Distribution / Warner Home Video Distributor : Columbia TriStar Warner Filmes de Portugal / Warner Bros.Production : Alcon Entertainment / 3 Arts Entertainment / Left Tackle Pictures / Netter Productions / Zucker/Netter Productions.The film follows Oher from his impoverished upbringing, through his years at Wingate Christian School (a fictional representation of Briarcrest Christian School in Memphis, Tennessee), his adoption by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, to his position as one of the most highly coveted prospects in college football, then finally becoming a first-round pick of the Ravens. The storyline features Michael Oher, an offensive lineman who was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). The Blind Side is a 2009 American biographical sports drama film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.
0 kommentar(er)
