1989 · biography · drama
My Left Foot
Directed by Jim Sheridan1h 43m1989
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.
Our read: My Left Foot (1989) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded biography · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured biography / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
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