O Meu Pé Esquerdo

Original title: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

Director: Jim Sheridan

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker

Year: 1989
Awards: Won 2 Oscars - Best Actor in a Leading Role (Daniel Day-Lewis), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Brenda Fricker)

Plot Summary:

• Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write with.
  - Written by Reid Gagle

Original Music by

Elmer Bernstein