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Mar 30, 1990 · My Left Foot: Directed by Jim Sheridan. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan. Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
- (78K)
- Jim Sheridan
- R
- Biography, Drama
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan (in his director debut) adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown.
- £600,000
- Elmer Bernstein
- 24 February 1989
- Noel Pearson
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...
- (1.5K)
- Jim Sheridan
- R
- Daniel Day-Lewis
Feb 2, 1990 · Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot" is the story of Christy's life, based on his autobiography and on the memories of those who knew him. He was not an easy man to forget. Tiny and twisted, bearded and unkempt, he managed, despite his late start, to grow into a poet, a novelist, a painter and a lyrical chronicler of his own life.
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My Left Foot - Accidentally On Purpose. Now Playing: My Left Foot - All Souls' Night. Starring: Hugh O'Conor, Brenda Fricker. Mrs. Brown, adamantly unashamed of her son Christy's cerebral palsy, takes Christy to church.
