My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) is a Drama film directed by Jim Sheridan, rated 7.5/10 by 1,036 viewers.

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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Directed by Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan.