My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (movie)
- User score: 7.5
- Production country: Ireland, United Kingdom
- Producer: Jim Sheridan
- Production companies: Ferndale Films, Granada Television, RTÉ
- Genre: Drama
- Budget: $645,180
- Revenue: $14,743,391
- Release date: 4/7/1989
- Run time: 103 min.
Movie description
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.
