My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
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1989 · Movie · 1h 43m · R
The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 98% of the 1,407 1980s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes98%
Metacritic97/100
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
1,062 audience votes
Key crew
- Elmer BernsteinOriginal Music Composer
- Shane ConnaughtonScreenplay
- Jim SheridanDirector
- Jim SheridanScreenplay
Cast
- Daniel Day-LewisChristy Brown
- Brenda FrickerMrs. Brown
- Alison WhelanSheila
- Kirsten SheridanSharon
- Declan CroghanTom
- Eanna MacLiamBenny
- Marie ConmeeSadie
- Cyril CusackLord Castlewelland
- Phelim DrewBrian
- Ruth McCabeMary
- Fiona ShawDr. Eileen Cole
- Ray McAnallyMr. Brown
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Themes
bodily disabled personpoetbiographybased on true storyfootflashbackauthorworking classirelanddisabledcerebral palsyirish film
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