

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $645.2K
- Box office
- $14.7M
- Language
- English
- bodily disabled person
- poet
- biography
- based on true story
- foot
- flashback
- author
- working class
- ireland
- disabled
- cerebral palsy
- irish film
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Produced in
Ireland, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR10 Nov 1989
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1521 Jul 1989
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical7 Dec 1989
CanadaCA
- Theatrical12 Sept 1989
CzechiaCZ
- Physical1 Apr 1994
GermanyDE
- Theatrical121 Feb 1990
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1315 Nov 1989
IrelandIE
- Theatrical127 Apr 1989
JapanJP
- TheatricalG21 Apr 1990
NetherlandsNL
- TheatricalAL23 Mar 1990
- PhysicalALDVD7 May 2013
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical153 Jan 1991
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown was released on 7 April 1989.
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1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/25/2025
There's a pretty fine line between mimicry and acting, and acting that's natural and that which has been rehearsed to within an inch of it's life. I think it's very much the natural that Daniel Day-Lewis delivers here, as does Hugh O'Conor as his younger persona, as we learn of the upbringing of a young lad born with very limited movement and learning difficulties, but a mind that's clearly sharp and a face that's ex…
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