His Real-Life Struggles Were Watered Down
The film showed that Oher had a tough upbringing, which included a lack of blood relatives in his life and periods of time spent living on the streets. But he felt that the writers left out a lot of major details about his past struggles for the sake of shortening the length of the film’s runtime, which was understandable from Oher’s perspective. To explain his life from start to finish would take a lot more than two hours.