My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

“A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.”

• 1989
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• 1h 43m
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• R

• Drama

★ 7.5 TMDB Rating · 1.1K votes

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

Release date

Apr 7, 1989

Original language

English

Origin

Ireland