MY LEFT FOOT (1989)
Awards
- Oscar for best actor in a leading role
- Daniel Day Lewis
- Oscar for best actress in a supporting role
- Brenda Fricker
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 retardation for the first ten years of his life. His family only recognizes his intelligence after Christy shows his family he has taught himself to write. He demonstrates this by using his left foot to write his name. Christy not only learns to grapple with life's simple physical tasks and complex psychological pains, but he also develops into a brilliant painter, poet and author.
