Title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
Tagline: A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee, Kirsten Sheridan, Cyril Cusack, Phelim Drew, Ruth McCabe, Fiona Shaw, Ray McAnally, Pat Laffan, Derry Power, Hugh O'Conor, Eileen Colgan, Tom Hickey, Britta Smith, Adrian Dunbar, Daniel Reardon, Jer O'Leary, Naomi Sheridan
Release: 1989-04-07
Runtime: 103
Plot: 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 have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.
