
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.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Ferndale Films, RTÉ, Granada Television
- Keyword: bodily disabled person, biography, poet, foot, based on true story, flashback, author, working class, disabled, cerebral palsy
- Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee