![]() ![]() When he undergoes treatment from the unorthodox Dr. Nevertheless, his determined mother (Brenda Fricker, Oscar®-winner for Best Actress in a Supporting Role) finds ways to stimulate the deprived boy's imagination, and nurtures his ability to express himself, beginning with a piece of chalk held between his toes.Īs an adult, Brown manages to express himself through painting, as well as writing (most of the story is told in flashbacks, as a nurse reads Brown's autobiography). Daniel Day-Lewis's landmark performance earned him his first Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the young man born into poverty who, due to the congenital condition, had muscular command of little else but his titular left foot.īrown (played in his childhood years by Hugh O'Conor) is raised in a house crowded with siblings and without the financial resources to allow him medical treatment, or even a wheelchair. ![]() ![]() The extraordinary struggles of an Irish writer/painter born with severe cerebral palsy are dramatized in Jim Sheridan's 1989 film My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown. ![]()
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