Michael Oher Says "The Blind Side" Was Inaccurate, So Here Are 5 Other 'Based On True Events' Movies That Stretched The Truth Like A Mozzarella Cheese Pull

The sports star claims that the movie, which has reportedly made the Tuohy family "millions," is inaccurate, filing a lawsuit claiming that that the family never officially adopted him. Instead, he was in a conservatorship, he says.

The petition claims the Tuohys "tricked him into signing a document making them his conservators, which gave them legal authority to make business deals in his name."

The film, which starred Hugh Jackman, was meant to show the life of a real-life person name P.T. Barnum. However, the IRL man was a lot less palatable than his on-screen counterpart.

In fact, the real-life man kidnapped and manipulated Aboriginal people to keep his show afloat. "I wonder if the world would consider this self-professed 'humbug' light, innocuous entertainment if they knew he sent henchmen to the colonies to kidnap and coerce Aboriginal men, women and children, before casting them as 'human oddities' in Barnum & Bailey’s 'show-stopping' exhibition The Ethnological Congress of Strange Tribes?" asks The Guardian. 

The animated movie was meant to represent the real-life story of a First Peoples girl who was given the nickname (it meant "playful one").  Her real name was Amonute or Matoaka. 

As for the romance in the film, it's unlikely the real-life Pocahontas could have been meaningfully in love with John Smith. After all, she would have been 11-ish years old in 1607. On top of that, the film is based on what is largely believed to be a lie told by Smith -- Pocahontas likely didn't save his life and fall in love with him.

The coach Irving "Irv" Blitzer never existed, and the team actually had several trainers. On top of that, the army (!!!) put the team together (at the behest of two American businessmen, George Fitch and William Maloney). 

Oh, and you know how everyone ignored the team in the film? Well, in reality, once the team actually reached the Olympics, they were so popular that they couldn't go anywhere for fear of being mobbed. All sounds pretty intense, right?

In the movie, Alan Turing was depicted as the sole creator of the code-breaking machine pivotal to Britain's WW2 victory; however, in reality, parts of the machine were already developed before he joined the project.  

Back in 1932, Polish mathematicians successfully deciphered early machine versions, a detail omitted in the film. The movie also overlooked Gordon Welchman, Turing's co-inventor. And guess what? In real life, Alan Turing was way more charming and amiable than he seemed in the film!