My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Streaming on MGM+
- ★ 7.5
- R
- Drama
- 1989
- 103 min
- Ireland
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 o
Made by and starring
- Jim Sheridandirector
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Brenda Fricker
- Alison Whelan
- Kirsten Sheridan
- Declan Croghan
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