New films are released every day and most are previewed well in advance to get the media talking before they are even available to the public. On November 20, 2009, the box office hit The Blind Side was released in theaters and demand skyrocketed to see this amazing, heartwarming, and based on a true story film. Michael Oher, the main character of the film, faces many challenges throughout the film and had difficulty growing up to learn the basics due to poor parenting. Michael Oher is a hero by overcoming every difficult situation he faces, being a positive example, learning morals and how to succeed. Michael Oher was one of thirteen children in his dysfunctional family. In the film, we first see Michael get in a car to the private. Leigh Anne slowed down and got out of the car to talk to him. She then discovered he had no place to stay the night and said he was staying at their house. The other family members were quite shocked but thought it would just be an overnight stay, as did Leigh Anne. Michael was very shy but ended up going home with them and staying on the couch that night. This example from the film is something that doesn't happen often. An extremely wealthy family stopped to help a homeless child and had no idea who he was. While the rest of the family members were in shock, 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 unfortunately no one cared about him until he met the Tuhoy family. Since it is a true story, he has a separate book from the movie called I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness to the Blind Side and Beyond. Michael explains 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 care for nearly two years, and nine percent of children in foster care have languished there for five years or more” (Foster Care Children Rights). A small percentage of children are actually adopted and therefore continue to struggle throughout their lives. In Aging out Gracefully, Gabrielle Richards says, “Each year, approximately 30,000 youth in foster care age out of the system. Many of them leave without finding stable, affordable, permanent housing” (Richards 19). This is a large number of children who are left behind with nowhere to go. Michael, however, explains how he could have succeeded without being welcomed by the Tuhoy family. In the book review she says: "It is clear that his state of mind was such that he would not be accepted.