My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
19891h 43mNo ratings yet
- Drama
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.
Keywords
- based on true story
- flashback
- working class
- biography
- author
- disabled
- foot
- poet
- ireland
- bodily disabled person
- cerebral palsy
- irish film
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 7, 1989
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- english
- Countries
- Ireland, United Kingdom
- Budget
- $645,180
- Revenue
- $14,743,391
- IMDb
- tt0097937