My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989 Jim Sheridan 1h 43m ★ 7.5
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

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 t

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis Christy Brown
Brenda Fricker Brenda Fricker Mrs. Brown
Alison Whelan Sheila
Kirsten Sheridan Kirsten Sheridan Sharon
Declan Croghan Tom
Eanna MacLiam Eanna MacLiam Benny
Marie Conmee Sadie
Cyril Cusack Cyril Cusack Lord Castlewelland

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