Here is today's movie with scenes that happen today - June 5. I hope you enjoy it and watch it tonight.
MY LEFT FOOT
Christy Brown is taken to a
charity event and meets his handler, a nurse named Mary Carr. She starts to
read his autobiography. Christy Brown was born handicapped on June 5, 1932.
[6:56 to 8:57] He could not walk or talk, but was loved and supported by his family,
especially his mother. When his mother has a stroke, Christy gets help. His
father who had never really believed in him becomes a supporter when one day
when he is about ten, Christy uses his left foot(the only part of his body he
can really control) to write the word ‘mother’ with a piece of chalk on the
floor. The family celebrate his seventeenth birthday [28:47 to 30:08]. Christy
starts painting. He is included by the young people in his neighborhood in
their activities such as playing street soccer and even sessions of ‘spin the
bottle’. However when he paints a picture and gives to a girl he likes, she
returns it to him. His father is laid off from his job and times become really
tough. Christy, to his mother’s dismay comes up with a plan where his brothers
are able to steal coal. Christy’s elder
sister, who was always very nice to him gets pregnant and has to get married
and leave home. Christy’s mother who had hidden her savings in a tin in the
fireplace finally saves enough to buy him a wheelchair. He meets Dr. Eileen Cole, who takes him to her school for
cerebral palsy patients and persuades a friend of hers to hold an exhibition of
Christy’s work. However, at a diner afterwards he learns she is engaged to be
married. Christy considers suicide. He and his mother build Christy his own
private studio, but his father soon thereafter dies of a stroke. His wake
degenerates in to a bar room brawl started by Christy. Christy starts writing his autobiography, My
Left Foot. Dr. Cole returns and they resume their friendship. Meanwhile,
at the fete Christy asks Mary Carr to go out with him and they leave the fete
together and an onscreen message tells us they later got married.
A very uplifting film. One that
you should watch if you’re feeling depressed. Afterwards you should be thankful
for how small your problems really are. Daniel Day-Lewis certainly deserved his
Oscar, as he was able to bring out Christy Brown’s personality without using
words.
Christy Brown: The Life That Inspired My Left Foot by
Georgina Louise Hambleton (Mainstream Publishing, London, 2007) at page 20
gives his birthdate
Producer - Noel Pearson
Director - Jim Sheridan
Screenplay - Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton
Awards – The film won the Best Actor (Day-Lewis) and Best
Supporting Actress
(Fricker) Oscars. The Film was also nominated for the Best Picture, Best
Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Oscars.
Runtime – 1 hour 43 minutes
Released - February
24, 1989
Starring –
Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown
Brenda Fricker as Bridget Brown
Ray McAnally as Paddy Brown
Fiona Shaw as Dr. Eileen Cole
Hugh O'Conor as young Christy Brown
Kirsten Sheridan as Sharon Brown
Alison Whelan as Sheila Brown
Eanna MacLiam as Benny Brown
Declan Croghan as Tom Brown
Marie Conremme as Sadie Brown
Cyril Cusack as Lord Castlewelland
Phelim Drew as Brian
Ruth McCabe as Mary Carr
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