My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)1h43
Drama
Director Jim Sheridan (7.1 avg)
Also directed Brothers, In the Name of the Father, Dream House, and 8 more
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.
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Cast
Daniel Day-Lewis
Brenda Fricker- Alison Whelan
Kirsten Sheridan- Declan Croghan
Eanna MacLiam- Marie Conmee
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