My Left Foot
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir by Christy Brown. A co-pro
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. Widely considered one of the greatest actors in the history of cinema, he is best known for intense method acting portrayed with eccentric chara
My Left Foot
…debut) and adapted by Sheridan and Shane Connaughton from the 1954 memoir by Christy Brown. A co-production of Ireland and the United Kingdom, it stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Brown, an Irish man born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. Brown grew up in a poor working-class family and became a writer…
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