A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
1989 · R · 1h 43m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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…
Director: Jim Sheridan
Writers: Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton
Music by: Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography: Jack Conroy
Editor: J. Patrick Duffner
Box office: $15M · Rated 7.5/10 by 1040 viewers