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.
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Cast
Fiona Shaw, Pat Laffan, Kirsten Sheridan, Jer O'Leary, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh O'Conor, Brenda Fricker, Ruth McCabe, Eileen Colgan, Phelim Drew, Eanna MacLiam, Adrian Dunbar, Cyril Cusack, Britta Smith, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Marie Conmee, Ray McAnally, Derry Power, Tom Hickey, Daniel Reardon, Naomi Sheridan
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Reviews
100
My Left Foot is a great film for many reasons, but the most important is that it gives us such a complete picture of this man's life. It is not an inspirational movie, although it inspires. It is not a sympathetic movie, although it inspires sympathy. It is the story of a stubborn, difficult, blessed and gifted man who was dealt a bad hand, who played it brilliantly, and who left us some good books, some good paintings and the example of his courage.
100
Throughout his life, Brown refused to give in to public convention or his own despair; he wouldn't play the victim. Brown labored to express all of his feelings, not just the acceptable ones. Day Lewis works the same way. My Left Foot, a keen match of actor and subject, stands as an eloquent tribute to the talents of both.
100
My Left Foot is gloriously exultant and hilariously unexpected...Sheridan and his great young star have universalized their broken hero.
100
A rich cinematic experience, this uplifting British production will leave you in awe of the extraordinary Christy Brown.
100
That it features a brilliant performance by Daniel Day-Lewis and a fine supporting cast lifts it from mildly sentimental to excellent.
