My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
19891h 43mR
75%
1,031 TMDB ratings
Directed by Jim Sheridan
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.
A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
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- Release date
- April 7, 1989
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Director
- Jim Sheridan
- Box office
- $14,743,391
- Rated
- R
