My Left Foot

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.

1989 | 1 h 43 min