My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Rating: 7.524/10

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.

Release Date: 1989-04-07

Top Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis

Brenda Fricker

Alison Whelan

Kirsten Sheridan

Declan Croghan

Eanna MacLiam

Marie Conmee

Cyril Cusack

Phelim Drew

Ruth McCabe

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