My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 drama movie directed by Jim Sheridan. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and Alison Whelan. It runs 1h 43m and is rated R. TMDB users rate it 7.5 out of 10.

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.