New movies come out every day, and most premiere well in advance to get the media talking before they're even available to the public. On November 20, 2009, the box office hit The Blind Side hit theaters and demand skyrocketed to see this amazing, feel-good movie with a true story. Michael Oher, the main character of the film, is tested with many challenges throughout the film and struggled to grow up learning the basics due to poor parenting. Michael Oher is a hero who manages to overcome all the difficult situations he faces, setting a positive example and learning morals and how to succeed. Michael Oher was one of thirteen children in his dysfunctional family. In the film we first see Michael traveling by car to the private Leigh Anne, he slows down and gets out of the car to talk to him. Then he found out he had nowhere to stay that night and said he was staying at their house. The other family members were quite shocked but thought it would only be a one night stay, as did Leigh Anne. Michael was very shy but ended up coming home with them and stayed on the couch that night. This example from the movie is something that doesn't happen often. An extremely wealthy family showed up to help a homeless boy and they had no idea who he was. While the rest of the family members were shocked, so was Michael. He didn't know how to react because he never had help in life. He always relied on himself and knew that no one cared about him unfortunately before he met the Tuhoy family. Since this is a true story, it has a separate book from the film called I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness to the Blind Side and Beyond. Michael talks about how he beat the odds and how the odds are stacked against the children in the foster care program. “On average, children remain in state foster care for nearly two years, and 9 percent of children in foster care languish there for five or more years” (Foster Care Children Rights). A low percentage of children are actually adopted and then continue to struggle throughout their lives. In Aging out Gracefully, Gabrielle Richards states, “Each year, approximately 30,000 foster youth age out of the system. Many of them leave without finding stable, affordable, and permanent housing” (Richards 19). That's a large number of kids who are basically left hanging there with nowhere to go. Michael however talks about how he could have succeeded even without being taken in by the Tuhoy family. In the book review he says: "It is clear that his mentality was such that it would not have been