My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
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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.
Top Billed Cast
StatusReleased
Original LanguageEnglish
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