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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan (in his director debut) adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir of the same name by Christy Brown. A co-production of Ireland and the United Kingdom, it stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown, an Irish man born with ...
Mar 30, 1990 · A 1989 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown, a man with cerebral palsy who becomes a painter and writer with his left foot. The film depicts his childhood, family, love life and artistic achievements, and won two Oscars.
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- Biography, Drama
- Jim Sheridan
- 1990-03-30
My Left Foot, memoir written by Irish author Christy Brown (June 5, 1932–September 7, 1981), published in 1954. Begun when he was 18 and published when Brown was 22 years old, My Left Foot is the story of an extraordinary person. Brown was an imaginative, sensitive soul trapped in a body twisted and crippled by cerebral palsy.
This cinematic masterpiece is the brilliant portrayal of legendary Irishman Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, learned to use his one controllable extremity -- his left foot -- to become an accomplished artist and writer. The Miramax Collector's Series proudly presents the release of the acclaimed motion picture that won Academy Awards® in 1989 for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Supporting Actress (Brenda Fricker) and earned Oscar® nominations ...
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My Left Foot. DRAMA. This cinematic masterpiece is the brilliant portrayal of legendary Irishman Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, learned to use his one controllable extremity -- his left foot -- to become an accomplished artist and writer. MY LEFT FOOT won Academy Awards® in 1989 for Best Actor (Daniel ...
- Jim Sheridan
- Daniel Day-Lewis
A 1989 biographical film about Christy Brown, an Irish writer and painter with cerebral palsy. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker, the film won two Oscars and six Golden Globes.
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In Theaters At Home TV Shows. No one expects much from Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic ...
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