Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a British film of genre Drama directed by Jim Sheridan released in USA on 10 november 1989 with Daniel Day-Lewis

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 10 november 1989
Length 1h43
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Biography
Rating77% 3.8982653.8982653.8982653.8982653.898265

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 Irish drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Christy Brown grew up in a poor, working-class family, and became a writer and artist. The film also stars Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee, and Cyril Cusack. It is a partly fictional biography, adapted by Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan from the book of the same name by Christy Brown.

The film was well received by critics and audiences alike. Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively, and was nominated for three more awards, Best Adapted Screenplay for Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan, Best Director for Sheridan and the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Synopsis

The film opens with Christy Brown, who has cerebral palsy, being taken to a charity event, where he meets his handler, a nurse named Mary Carr. She begins reading his autobiography. Christy could not walk or talk, but still received love and support from his family, especially his mother. One day, while Christy was still a young boy, he is the only person home to see his mother fall down a flight of stairs while in labor. He is able to get the attention of some neighbors, who come to his mother's rescue. His father, who had never really believed in Christy, becomes a supporter when, one day, when he is about ten, Christy uses his left foot (the only part of his body he can fully control) to write the word "mother" on the floor with a piece of yellow chalk.

Actors

Trailer of My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

There are 94 films with the same actors, 8 films with the same director, 60844 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1760 with exactly the same 2 genres than My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown), 4587 films with the same themes (including 0 films with the same 4 themes than My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, you will probably like those similar films :
The Secret Scripture, 1h48
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Rooney Mara, Vanessa Redgrave, Theo James, Eric Bana, Jack Reynor, Aidan Turner
Rating67% 3.358683.358683.358683.358683.35868
Un psychiatre (Eric Bana) s'intéresse au journal intime d'une patiente, Rosemary McNulty (Vanessa Redgrave), accusée d'avoir tué son enfant issu d'une relation illégitime avec un sympathisant anglais. Enfermée dans un hôpital psychiatrique, sur le point d'être démoli, depuis une cinquantaine d'années, elle est suivie psychologiquement par le psychiatre qui est engagé pour réévaluer son état. Il découvre son attachement pour la Bible et elle lui raconte tout ce qu'elle a vécu et pourquoi elle a passé sa vie dans cet hôpital…
Dream House, 1h28
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about writers, Ghost films
Actors Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas, Elias Koteas, Gregory Smith
Rating60% 3.000933.000933.000933.000933.00093
The film begins in Manhattan with Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) leaving his job as a successful editor in the city in order to spend more time in the suburbs with his wife, Libby (Rachel Weisz), and their two daughters and write a book. At first, they appear to be living the American dream in an idyllic small-town home they have just moved into. Early in his time at the house, Will notices tension between his neighbor, Anne Patterson (Naomi Watts), and her ex-husband, Jack, who is picking up their teenage daughter. Despite the seemingly perfect house, it soon becomes apparent to Will that something isn't right.
In the Name of the Father, 2h12
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Prison films, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Conflit nord-irlandais
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, Pete Postlethwaite, John Lynch, Beatie Edney, Corin Redgrave
Rating80% 4.0490254.0490254.0490254.0490254.049025
Gerry Conlon (Daniel Day-Lewis) is shown in Belfast stripping lead from roofs of houses when security forces home in on the district with armoured cars, and a riot breaks out. Gerry's father, Giuseppe Conlon (Pete Postlethwaite), later saves him from IRA punishment, and he is sent off to London to stay with his aunt, for his own good. Instead, he finds a squat, to explore, as he puts it, "free love and dope". One evening by chance he gains entry to a prostitute's flat and he steals the £700 he finds stashed inside; on that evening in Guildford there is an explosion at a pub that kills four off-duty soldiers and a civilian, and wounds sixty-five others.
Veronica Guerin, 1h38
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Colin Farrell, Paudge Behan
Rating67% 3.398433.398433.398433.398433.39843
Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett) is a feisty crime reporter for the Sunday Independent. Suddenly aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class citizens, especially the children, she becomes determined to expose the men responsible for its spread.
The Field
The Field (1990)
, 1h47
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean, Brenda Fricker, Tom Berenger, John Cowley
Rating72% 3.647123.647123.647123.647123.64712
Bull McCabe, an Irish farmer, dumps a dead donkey in a lake. It transpires that McCabe's son, Tadhg, killed the donkey after discovering it had broken into the field the family has rented for generations. The donkey's owner blames Bull McCabe for the death and demands "blood money".
The Boxer
The Boxer (1997)
, 1h53
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Lorraine Pilkington, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley
Rating69% 3.497923.497923.497923.497923.49792
Former Irish pugilist & Provisional IRA member Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns home to Belfast from a 14-year stint in prison at the age of 32. Weary of the unbroken cycle of violence in Northern Ireland, he attempts to settle down and live in peace. After meeting his drink-sodden old trainer Ike (Ken Stott), Danny starts up a non-sectarian boxing club for boys in an old gymnasium. While fixing up the old building, however, he runs across a cache of Semtex hidden underneath the stage. He throws the cache into the river.
There Will Be Blood, 2h38
Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dillon Freasier, Russell Harvard
Rating81% 4.099394.099394.099394.099394.09939
In 1898, Daniel Plainview, a prospector in New Mexico, mines a potentially precious ore vein from a pit mine hole. In the process of dynamiting the lode, he falls from a broken rung of the tunnel ladder and breaks his leg. He saves a silver sample, climbs out of the mine, and drags himself to the nearest assay office to record his and gets a Silver and Gold certificate claim. In 1902, he discovers oil near Los Angeles, California and establishes a small drilling company. Following the death of a worker in an accident, Daniel adopts the man's orphaned son. The boy, named H. W., becomes his nominal "business partner", allowing Daniel to paint himself to potential investors as "a family man".
Bloom
Bloom (2004)
, 1h53
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality
Actors Stephen Rea, Angeline Ball, Hugh O'Conor, Eoin McCarthy, Patrick Bergin, Mark Huberman
Rating55% 2.7576452.7576452.7576452.7576452.757645
Bloom takes place on 16 June 1904 and attempts to make a visual reconstruction of Joyce's stream of consciousness style.
Conspiracy of Silence, 1h30
Directed by John Deery
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films about religion, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Hugh Quarshie, Jonathan Forbes, Hugh Bonneville, Seán McGinley, Jason Barry, Chris O'Dowd
Rating64% 3.2313253.2313253.2313253.2313253.231325
Father Sweeney (Patrick Casey), a gay Catholic priest living with HIV, commits suicide. His death leads local investigative journalist David Foley (Jason Barry) to write a story that publicly identifies Sweeney as having HIV.
The Young Poisoner's Handbook, 1h33
Directed by Benjamin Ross
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Hugh O'Conor, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Charlotte Coleman, Antony Sher, Hazel Douglas
Rating69% 3.4961653.4961653.4961653.4961653.496165
Graham Young has been obsessed with death and the macabre since childhood. He is highly intelligent, with an aptitude for chemistry; he dreams of poisoning as many people as he can. In his teen years, he actually poisons a schoolmate — which made him ill rather than killing him — in order to date a girl his schoolmate was seeing. His conversation with his date involved vivid, graphic descriptions of deadly car accidents. He also reads a comic book account of an event in which the Dutch Resistance killed a whole German army camp in the occupied Netherlands during the Second World War by poisoning their water supply with thallium.