7.4
“A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.”
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
April 7, 19891h 43mEN
7.5
1.0K votes
Overview
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 SheridanWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$645K
Revenue
$14.7M
Production Companies
Ferndale FilmsGranada TelevisionRTÉ
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0There's a pretty fine line between mimicry and acting, and acting that's natural and that which has been rehearsed to within an inch of it's life. I think it's very much the natural that Daniel Day-Lewis delivers here, as does Hugh O'Conor as his younger persona, as we learn of the upbringing of a young lad born with very limited movement and learning difficulties, but a mind that's clearly sharp and a face that's expressive. His family, a typically large one, is headed up by his dad (Ray McAnally) who presents us with a variation on the usual theme of father who comes home from work then hits…
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