In the final seconds of the 2009 film “The Blind Side,” Leigh Anne Tuohy, played by Sandra Bullock, reflects on the murder of a 21-year-old black athlete in a local housing project. The young man had dropped out of school, fallen in with the wrong crowd, and died in a gang-related shooting. “That could have been my son Michael,” Leigh Anne says right before the credits roll. “I suppose I have God to thank for that.”
A decade later, it’s hard to imagine a film from a major studio ending that way. The film began with Leigh Anne Tuohy seeing a homeless teenager named Michael Oher walking down the street in the cold. She and her husband Sean decided to take care of him. Finally, after years of sacrifice, Oher goes to college and eventually goes on to become a successful NFL player.
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