Plot
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Release Year: 1989
Rating: 7.8/10 (21,862 voted)
Director:
Jim Sheridan
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan
Storyline 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.
Writers: Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis
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Christy Brown
Brenda Fricker
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Mrs. Brown
Alison Whelan
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Sheila
Kirsten Sheridan
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Sharon
Declan Croghan
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Tom
Eanna MacLiam
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Benny
Marie Conmee
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Sadie
Cyril Cusack
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Lord Castlewelland
Phelim Drew
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Brian
Ruth McCabe
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Mary
Fiona Shaw
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Dr. Eileen Cole
Ray McAnally
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Mr. Brown
Pat Laffan
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Barman
(as Patrick Laffan)
Derry Power
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Customer in Bar
Hugh O'Conor
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Young Christy Brown
Taglines:
A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
Release Date: 10 November 1989
Filming Locations: Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Box Office Details
Budget: £600,000
(estimated)
Gross: $14,743,391
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia: Daniel Day-Lewis acted out the opening scene, as we see in the film, on the first take.
Goofs:
Continuity:
Christy's position on the stairs changes between cuts when he is going downstairs after his mother's fall.
Quotes:
[Christy's father builds him a house next to his parents]
Mrs. Brown:
Well, Christy, that's the nearest he'll ever come to saying I love you.
User Review
A remarkable film and performances by Day-Lewis and Fricker
Rating: 10/10
Let me state at the outset that I have Cerebral Palsy and I went into this
film expecting to have to make allowances for the lead performance. I left
the theater half-convinced that they'd cast an actor who had Cerebral Palsy
in the role, even though I knew that was not the case. The performances
were generally excellent, with a special nod to Brenda Fricker and to Hugh
O'Conner (I believe that's his name) as the young Christy Brown. Christy is
talented, brash, arrogant, at times vulgar and petulant-in other words,
human. This film, along with Gaby: A True Story and the documentary King
Gimp, are excellent portrayals of life with CP. By no means a complete
portrait, but fine examples of the disabled as human beings. Most highly
recommended.
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