The Blind Side is the typical white savior trope that makes it marketable, not Oher. There’s hundred of poor kids making it to the NFL - nothing special about that,

Sandra Bullock is the star, not Quinton Aaron. That should tell you exactly where the marketing priority is and what sells. So each family making a share makes absolute sense. Plus, the father sold his businesses for over $200 MILLION - they don’t need Oher to make money.

The money is a pittance because getting a movie made about you is not lucrative. Michael Lewis sold the rights to this movie two times. The first time he sold it, they were paid a flat fee. That fee was $250K split among all of them. That’s the market rate for what a studio is willing to pay for a story like this. It’s very very low.

The first studio never made the movie, so then they sold it the second time. The second time, they instead got a variable fee based on how much the money made at the BO. This time they got $700K (of which, half went to Lewis). That’s almost triple what they got with their fixed deal. They ultimately got a good deal, for something that is not paid very highly

He’s suing the Tuohys for ripping him off. He’s not suing because the Tuohys used a consevatorship over adoption to get him into college (something Oher knew about years ago per his biography). Now the fact that Oher indeed got paid is definitely something his lawyers give a shit about. The prospect of a payday for both them and Oher just sank.

Idk why this is such a sticking point for people.

They’ve said the lawyer said it was a problem to try adoption and that the conservatorship was the way to go. Isn’t it very possible they heard that then never looked into it further, thinking the guy gave them good info?

It doesn’t sound like they’ve done anything wrong with the money or anything. I’m sure he’s been invited to every Christmas, etc.

At what point is the piece of paper important if everything else is above board?

Look, the fact they put him under conservatorship rather than adopting him means I don’t give a shit what they say. That mere fact shows they didn’t see him as their son and they were in no hurry to correct that.

I think the Tuohys probably had ulterior motives for “adopting” Oher, such as having a talent play for their high school and college.

I’m pretty sure the “adoption” was mainly to circumvent NCAA rules about boosters providing benefits to players. The exception, of course, would be providing to your own child. So they “adopted” Oher so he could play for Ole Miss.

The problem was that if they actually legally adopted Oher, he would be an inheritor of the Tuohy’s estate. So their lawyers came up with the conservatorship idea to be able to say Oher was their son.

So I don’t think the Tuohys are pure and innocent, but I doubt the Tuohy’s used the conservatorship itself for financial gain like signing contracts on Oher’s behalf and keeping the money, like Oher alleged.

Most likely Oher’s agent/lawyer told him there’s no way he got paid his fair share of the movie profits. Let’s sue and try to get some payday.

Did you watchtl the movie? It was more about the mom than anything. Also, with movies it’s a complete fool’s errand to look at the end result profits and determine if the deal signed was unjust to anyone, that’s how contracts work in every field of business where the outcome is unknown, it’s a gamble on the movie producer’s part as well. You are ignorant of what people are typically paid for their rights to a story, what he was paid, and each of the family as well which was the same amount, was actually an overpay when compared to what’s typical. These are objective facts, some people appreciate them, others don’t as many have clearly illustrated.

They spent 10s of thousands of their own money on him. They flew him around on a private jet, paid for his food and housing for years. I think that shows a level of care

Absolutely a moroic take, and from a fellow Bengals fan…

My guy, the family total made like $600k including Michael’s share.

Also, when you have money and attorneys, and you bring in a late-teenage into your family that has never had access to money nor has he ever been properly educated on spending, a conservatorship is completely acceptable.

It’s like you saw the Brittany thing and immediately went “conservator bad” without even a moment of critical thought.

Conservatorships are actually extremely good in concept. If the people in control are terrible, then it can be really bad. If they are good people, it can be incredibly beneficial. Don’t be so black and white.

He got 5% of the profits. That’s pretty good.

Interesting to see how he lied though.

The total payout may be less than expected. But the family has all along said they split the proceeds evenly between all the family members and Oher. So, the numbers here, incl. Oher’s amount, roughly work out.

seems fair for doing nothing?

Which would be kinda crazy, assuming he knew he received a lot of money for the movie.

maybe Oher thought the Tuohys got millions from the movie, so $100k was “nothing”.

I’m not overlooking the conservatorship they had over him, which is fucked up, but the fact he claimed he never received any money from the movie and this comes out is a bad look. Others have mentioned ‘Hollywood accounting’ in this thread, which is shady accounting they do to report zero profits or losses, yet he received $138K. Not a whole lot, given the film’s numbers, but still more than he claims and more than people who choose film royalties.

There was a movie about it. I’m an expert

People really just read the first things that come out in the case, make up their minds, and never read anything else.

See also- the Alabama basketball shooting that happened last year, where a bunch of info that made the case way more complicated and messier than it first appeared came out, but, but everyone just ignored it and carried on spouting misinformation.

Current situation in Israel/Gaza

You would think people would get exhausted from holding very strong opinions, only to realize they were bamboozled time after time

Confirmation bias afforded by ignorance, willful or just plain, is a strong drug, never more so than in today’s utterly polarized world where so many have consciously or subconsciously decided to judge everyone and everything based on intersectionality instead of valid logic based on factual premises and objectivity. In short, many today will see what they want to see because it fits their preconcieved biases, doing so allows them to continue to support their believed narratives, and it makes them FEEL good about themselves and their beliefs, facts and logic be damned. This is nothing new, the world has always had people who act thus way, what us new is the ability for these types to gain strength in great numbers via social media, couple that with actual media, academia, political, and lately economic/business entities desire to gain clout and/or resist being demonized by the hoard of the unthinking and actually adding validity to such nonsense, well, we end up with what we have today.

If their motivation was to get him into the NFL for the money, then they sure failed at doing anything with that money. Oher isn’t alleging they tried to take any of it.

This sounds more like someone got in Oher’s ear and convinced him he was being used and unfortunately he listened.

Bingo. Oher’s agent or lawyer probably thought there’s no way the Tuohy’s received less than $1M on a $300M movie. Let’s sue them to reveal the numbers.

Exactly. But the story you tell just doesn’t give reddit the same racial justice boner. So, most choose instead the more sensational and satisfying (but far less plausible) scenario.

Reddit’s speed at (wrongly) vilifying the Tuohys is soon to be memory-hold. Watch (or rather not) for vindicating facts, such as the present ones, to (never) get elevated to the same degree as the more dopamine-inducing false allegations.

This dude made more than $34 million dollars from the NFL, the fact he tried to originally get $15 million from this family or he would try to dump dirt on them tells me he blew through it already.