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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

  • April 1989
  • 1hr

    43mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Paul M. Heller,

    Jim Sheridan,

    Steve Morrison,

    Starring

    Daniel Day-Lewis,

    Brenda Fricker,

    Alison Whelan,

    Eanna MacLiam

    ...

    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.