My Left Foot

– In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.90 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 43 Minutes
Release Year:
1989
Original Name:
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
My Left Foot (1989) - Also known as My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

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.

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My Left Foot (1989) - Trailer

Release Date:

30 Mar 1990

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Jim Sheridan

Writer:

Shane Connaughton (screenplay), Jim Sheridan (screenplay), Christy Brown (novel)

Main Actors:

Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan

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.

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 21 wins & 20 nominations.

Production:

HBO Video

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
Metacritic:
97%