My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
"A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle."
Critics Score
🎬 98%
(RT: 98%, MC: 97) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Alison Whelan as Sheila
Kirsten Sheridan as Sharon
Declan Croghan as Tom
Eanna MacLiam as Benny
Marie Conmee as Sadie
Is My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown good?
Yes. 87% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 98%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author. Wikipedia ↗
