#the blind side

[jodielandons]

Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.

Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”

Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.

#the blind side #Michael oher #Leigh Anne tuohy #sean tuohy #news #conservatorship #adoption #guardianship #white savior complex #black tumblr #black news #black stories #black men

[hashtagloveloses]

The headline is pretty awful but this is one of those things that gets worse as you read it:

The 14-page petition, filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, alleges that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, who took Oher into their home as a high school student, never adopted him. Instead, less than three months after Oher turned 18 in 2004, the petition says, the couple tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name.

"Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys."

Oher was a rising high school senior when he signed the conservatorship papers, and he has written that the Tuohys told him that there was essentially no difference between adoption and conservatorship. "They explained to me that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took my age into account," Oher wrote in his 2011 best-selling memoir "I Beat the Odds."

But there are some important legal distinctions. If Oher had been adopted by the Tuohys, he would have been a legal member of their family, and he would have retained power to handle his own financial affairs. Under the conservatorship, Oher surrendered that authority to the Tuohys, even though he was a legal adult with no known physical or psychological disabilities.

While the [movie] deal allowed the Tuohys to profit from the film, the petition alleges, a separate 2007 contract purportedly signed by Oher appears to "give away" to 20th Century Fox Studios the life rights to his story "without any payment whatsoever." The filing says Oher has no recollection of signing that contract, and even if he did, no one explained its implications to him.

The [movie] deal lists all four Tuohy family members as having the same representative at Creative Artists Agency, the petition says. But Oher's agent, who would receive movie contract and payment notices, is listed as Debra Branan, a close family friend of the Tuohys and the same lawyer who filed the 2004 conservatorship petition, the petition alleges. Branan did not return a call to her law office on Monday.

"Mike's relationship with the Tuohy family started to decline when he discovered that he was portrayed in the movie as unintelligent," Stranch said. "Their relationship continued to deteriorate as he learned that he was the only member of the family not receiving royalty checks from the movie, and it was permanently fractured when he realized he wasn't adopted and a part of the family."

For years, Oher has chafed at how "The Blind Side" depicted him, saying it hurt his football career and clouded how people view him. He has said that based on the film, some NFL decision-makers assumed he was mentally slow or lacked leadership skills.

"People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie," Oher told ESPN in 2015. "They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am."

"Beyond the details of the deal, the politics, and the money behind the book and movie, it was the principle of the choices some people made that cut me the deepest."

#original post #the blind side #michael oher #this is one of the worst things i’ve ever read #this movie always was awful but somehow it got worse

[meret118]

Shelby County Probate Court Judge Kathleen Gomes said she is ending the 2004 conservatorship, but is not dismissing the case Oher brought against the family in August asking them to provide accounting information for his finances over the years, according to the Associated Press.

A conservatorship is a legal appointment allowing a party to handle the financial and personal affairs of another. The conservatorship between Oher and the Tuohys stated that Oher could not sign contracts or make medical decisions on his own.

Gomes said she had never seen such a conservatorship used for someone who is not disabled, and that it should have been dissolved a long time ago.

"I cannot believe it got done," she said, according to the AP.

More at the link.

#Micheal oher #The blind side

[baeleaf1606]

Kathy Bates is a legend and we don’t speak about this enough 🖤🔪

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[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

So when I was in school The Blind side was one of the like... 3 movies the school always played during testing season and it's essentially playing a movie for the classes that don't have a test so we can sit down and shut up for those testing or some shit (I don't exactly remember the circumstances it's been a while since I been in school). The other movie I remember was Remember the Titans but that's irrelevant.

So you're telling me

This movie is based on a true story of a professional football player (I knew it was a true story I just didn't realize it was based on a professional football player)

The white family never legally adopted him they just tricked him into signing a conservatorship (even though adult adoption is legal in that state)

Michael Ore's does not like how the movie depicts him

And he never saw a cent of that money but the white family that "adopted" him made a shitton of money off of it?

Like I knew that the entire thing was "white savior: the movie" but this really feels... racist... and not for the obvious reasons. They tricked him to sign a conservatorship to make a movie about him that's implying that he's less intelligent and they're the white savior? White savior complex aside, it really feels like the movie implies he's less intelligent than he is (nothing wrong with being less intelligent but adding that the Black man is dumb in a white savior movie is the most racist thing).

"I felt like (the film) portrayed me as dumb instead of as a kid who had never had consistent academic instruction and ended up thriving once he got it," Oher wrote.

Yeah. This. What he said. He put it into words. Portraying a black man as dumb (especially if he's not in real life) in your white savior movie is just racist.

Also adopting a Black boy that would be a pro-football star and tricking him into signing papers that let's you make millions off his name feels... like slavery... like these white people aren't doing anything to make that money, they're using the fame he earned and profiting off him. You know?

-fae

#black lives matter #blm #black lives still matter #racism #the blind side

[gmzriver]

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy in “The Blind Side” icons.

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[nostalgc]

The Blind Side, (2009).

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[mysharona1987]

Shout out to the most unfairly vilified movie character in recent times.

#The blind side #michael oher #nfl #oscars #woc #news

[izzylightwood]

#collins tuohy #the blind side #lcollinsedit #lily collins #femalepopdaily #femalepopculture #dailymovie #filmtvsource #dailyactresses #chewieblog #* #lily* #the blind side* #cinematicsource. #cinematicsource

[merixirica]

Icons diversos (Pack 02)

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[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Wtf???!! Michael better keep suing them!!!

#the blind side #leigh anne tuohy #Michael oher

[norttinson]

world’s first (televised) excommunicated filmbro

#this is exactly what went down when i was excommunicated from filmbro society #it’s not because i watch cinematic films for homoerotic themes and babygirlism #reverend elijah hooper is the ultimate filmbro ok #sandy bullock reminds me of how i call him ed norty #ok i need to shut up someone get me my muzzle #edward norton #the simpson’s #the blind side #fight club #the red dragon #post!

[foureyedfreezy]

Being poor and black is not consent to exploitation.

Black and brown children did not ask for rich white people's help. They only "cared for them" to feel better about themselves and get attention.

Never call black children "ungrateful" for calling out their exploitation.

#michael oher #the blind side #racism #anti blackness

[girlschasinggirls]

Retired NFL player Michael Oher was not adopted by a rich white family as depicted in the 2009 movie "The Blind Side," according to a Tennessee court filing obtained by ESPN on Monday. Instead, they allegedly manipulated him to become more wealthy at his expense.

The petition was reportedly filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court. In it, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy are accused of taking Oher into their home as a high school student under a conservatorship they tricked him into, which granted them legal authority to make business deals on his behalf.

Oher, 37, is reportedly asking the court to end the Tuohy family's conservatorship, stop them from using his name and likeness and provide a full account of their earnings from using his name. In addition to unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, he is also reportedly seeking a "fair" share of profits.

Oher: I didn't receive money from 'The Blind Side'

"The Blind Side" saw wild success from Oher's poverty-to-Super-Bowl-champ story — but the report says he didn't see any funds from the movie.

The Tuohys are also accused of using that power to negotiate a deal that made them, including their two birth children, millions of dollars in royalties from the Oscar-winning film. They began negotiating a movie deal about their relationship with Oher shortly after the 2006 release of the book "Blind Side: Evolution of the Game," according to the filing.

Members of the family were each allegedly paid $225,000, plus 2.5% of the film's "defined net proceeds." The film earned more than $300 million.

An additional 2007 contract allegedly gave 20th Century Fox Studios the rights to Oher's story without any payment, according to the filing. He alleges that he doesn't recall signing any such contract or was misled to think he was agreeing to something else.

Family lie 'devastated and wounded [Oher] deeply'

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#the blind side #michael oher

[padawan-historian]

There are so many adoption agencies and family-saturated programs connected to the settler-colonial (i.e. laissez-facism) structures that seek to "straighten out" our (eco)systems in order to erase our histories, erode our community spaces, and exploit our cultures and our labor.

I ain't gonna say the big R-word (cause apparently is the equivalent of radioactive kryptonite to certain folks of a . . . lighter complexion) but #ParentsRights are fundamentally antiblack, anti-indigenous, and antiqueer in nature. Not only do they miseducate our young and grown folks across colorlines and cultures, but Parents Rights programs fundamentally displace and disposses the personhood and human rights of our young scholars who are growing up behind the veil of bigotry (both the intimate and the institutional)

By claiming children and classrooms should not be politicized, these mama bears and ugly feminists reinforce both the colonization and [R-word] color-codes of our identities, histories, lived experiences, memories, and magic.

There is a sharp difference between being concerned and being a colonizer, especially one with a [white] savior complex ~

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[mudwerks]

(via Michael Oher Claims ‘The Blind Side’ Tuohy Family Never Adopted Him – Rolling Stone)

The retired NFL athlete alleges in new court documents that Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy had him sign paperwork that positioned them as his conservators

Interesting - this always seemed like a fake story - a made for TV-Lifetime Movie project - and then that big-money film was made.

it all seemed very bogus

maybe it was...

#Michael Oher #The Blind Side #accusation of fraud #Tuohy Family #took advantage