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In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.



My Left Foot (1989)
Released: 10 Nov 1989
Runtime: 103 min
Rated: R
Director: Jim Sheridan
Writer(s): Shane Connaughton (screenplay), Jim Sheridan (screenplay), Christy Brown (book)
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 18 nominations.
IMDB Ratings: 7.9



Plot: Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write with.