My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Movie • 1989 • Drama
ReportIn 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.
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The family is loving and functional, although children are occasionally shouted at
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Christy often gets drunk when he is upset
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No but Christy keeps making romantic advances after being repeatedly rebuffed
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Christy often drools
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Christy hits his head against a table in a restaurant after being rejected by his therapist
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Christy attempts suicide
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People assume that Christy is also mentally disabled because of his physical disability
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Young boys look at a pornographic magazine and discuss sex
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