In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam
Producer: Elmer Bernstein, Ken Jennings, Kathy Durning, J. Patrick Duffner, Kieran Horgan
IMDb Score: 7.6/10 by 454 users
Runtime: 103 minutes
Released: 7/21/1989