Synopsis

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.

Nov 8, 2015 at 02:18 AM

Released: Apr 7, 1989

Budget: $645.2K

Box office: $14.7M

Studios: Ferndale Films, Granada Television, RTÉ

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom