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.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown has generally received very positive reviews.
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Review of My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
By Sheila Benson (186) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Jun 2011
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By Angie Errigo (463) for Empire (3,446) on 27 Jan 1995
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown was released in 1989 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 14 reviews, giving My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) an average rating of 83%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 95%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 90%.
With a score of 83%, My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1989, which stands at 57%.
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