My Left Foot: The Story of Christy BrownMark | imdb: 7.9 |
Genre | drama, biography |
Year | 1989 |
Country | Republic of Ireland , United Kingdom |
Premiere | |
Budget | $163 600 000 |
Box | in world | $14 743 391 | USA | $14 743 391 | In other countries | $0 |
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Duration | 01:43 |
Storyline
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life.