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

04/07/1989 (IE) • 1h 43m

Drama

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

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.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$645,180.00

Revenue

$14,743,391.00

Keywords

bodily disabled person

poet

biography

based on true story

foot

flashback

author

working class

disabled

cerebral palsy

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