My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
1989 · 103 min · DramaR
A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
- Director
- Jim Sheridan
- Writers
- Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan
- Released
- April 7, 1989
- Language
- English
Cast
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