My Left Foot (my Left Foot: The Story Of Christy Brown)

Director: Jim Sheridan
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan
Genres: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Release Year: 1989
Duration: 103 min
Synopsis: 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...