My Left Foot

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

About

Biographical comedy-drama film about a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. A miraculous event occurs when he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. The film was directed by Jim Sheridan.

Trivia

The British Film Institute ranked it as the 53rd greatest British film of the 20th century. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis won the Best Actor award at the Academy Awards for his performance.