My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1979)
Directed by Jim Sheridan · 103 min · Drama
81.6 TOPICAL score · #313 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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 (1979, directed by Jim Sheridan) has a TOPICAL score of 81.6 - ranked 313 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and critics, and lowest on legacy & cult status. It won 3 awards from 9 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Critics: 98% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.2/10 critics' average · Metacritic 97. Audiences: TMDB 7.5/10 (1,068 ratings) · IMDb 7.8/10. Wikipedia covers it in 47 languages.
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- Critics98% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.2/10 critics' average · Metacritic 97
- AudienceTMDB 7.5/10 (1,068 ratings) · IMDb 7.8/10
- Awards3 wins, 9 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 47 languages
- Still read52,024 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis (actor #30), Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
“In 2018, the British Film Institute ranked it as the 53rd greatest British film of the 20th century.”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 8/10