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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam
Crew: Paul M. Heller (Executive Producer), Noel Pearson (Producer), Jim Sheridan (Director), Elmer Bernstein (Original Music Composer), Steve Morrison (Executive Producer), J. Patrick Duffner (Editor)
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: Ferndale Films, Granada Television, RTÉ
Runtime: 103 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 07, 1989
IMDb: 3.487
Keywords:bodily disabled person, poet, biography, based on true story, foot, flashback, author, working class, disabled, cerebral palsy
