The story of Christy Brown, the Irish writer and painter severely crippled by cerebral palsy who was born in 1932 to a Dublin bricklayer's wife. He lived at home and, encouraged by Mrs Brown, struggled to communicate using his left foot, the only part of his body he could control.


Books with substantial mentioning of My Left Foot

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990


Year: 1989
Country: Ireland
United Kingdom
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0097937