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

Name: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989
Duration: T01:43:00
Rating: 3.8

| 1h 43min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 385 votes)

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan 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 cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Brown grew up in a poor working-class family, and became a writer and artist. Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally, Hugh O'Conor, Fiona Shaw, and Cyril Cusack are featured in supporting roles. The film was theatrically released on 24 February 1989 to critical acclaim. Reviewers praised the film's screenplay and direction, its message, and especially the... ()

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Actor National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominated for: Young European Film of The Year nominated for: European Film Award for Best Director nominated for: European Film Award for Best Actor

About My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

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 have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.

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Additional Information

Production countries: United Kingdom (UK), Ireland

Plays in: Dublin

Based on the work of: Christy Brown ("My Left Foot")

Main subject: Christy Brown (Person)

Made by: Granada Television, RTÉ, Ferndale Films

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 11/15/1989 (World premiere: 04/07/1989)

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Cyril Cusack, Kirsten Sheridan, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe

Director: Jim Sheridan

Producer: Noel Pearson

Screenwriter: Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton

Director of Photography: Jack Conroy

Composer: Elmer Bernstein

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Mi pie izquierdo"

"My Left Foot"

"Моят ляв крак"

"Meu Pé Esquerdo"

"My left foot: L'histoire de Christy Brown"

"Min venstre fod"

"Minun elämäni"

"Το αριστερό μου πόδι"

"Moja Levaja Noga"

"A bal lábam"

"Kuf Ragli Ha-Smalit"

"Il mio piede sinistro"

"나의 왼발"

"Min vänstra fot"

"Моя ліва нога"

"My Left Foot"

Keywords: cerebral palsy, author, bodily disabled person, poet, foot, flashback, working class, based on true story, disabled, biography

Budget: 645,180 USD

Revenue: 14,743,391 USD (= 2,285%)

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