My Left Foot (Blu-ray) R
A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 13, 2015
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Daniel Day-Lewis & Brenda Fricker | |
Performer: | Ray McAnally, Fiona Shaw, Kirsten Sheridan, Hugh O'Conor, Eanna MacLiam, Phelim Drew & Cyril Cusack | |
Directed by | Jim Sheridan | |
Edited by | J. Patrick Duffner | |
Composition by | Elmer Bernstein | |
Produced by | Noel Pearson | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Conroy |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
An intelligent, beautifully acted adaptation of Christy Brown's first book.
New York Times
Not only does Day-Lewis master the physical aspects of the role, the minute-to-minute struggle of almost complete paralysis, he lives the painful genesis of an artistic character.
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/4 --
My Left Foot is a great film for many reasons, but the most important is that it gives us such a complete picture of this man's life.
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Chicago Sun-Times
All performances are on the mark in this perfect little film.
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Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
Gritty yet uplifting tale of artist with cerebral palsy.
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Common Sense Media
Day Lewis' re-creation of writer/painter Christy Brown's condition is so precise, so detailed and so matter-of-fact that it transcends the carping about casting an actor without cerebral palsy.
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Time Out
For all his character's travails the film as a whole winds up surprisingly upbeat.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Daniel Day-Lewis delivers a performance for the ages in this film based on DOWN ALL THE DAYS, the autobiography of Christy Brown, who overcame severe physical limitations to become an accomplished painter and writer. The film describes the astounding arc of Brown's life, starting with a childhood in which his debilitating cerebral palsy causes everyone but his mother to believe he is brain-damaged. Brown begins to shatter this perception by using his left foot and a piece of chalk to scrawl a one-word message on the floor to his mother.
Though Brown's subsequent growth into an artist of great profundity is nothing short of miraculous, he is never presented in the film as anything more nor less than human. Director Jim Sheridan contributes to a fully three-dimensional portrait of the artist by showing such things as Brown playing soccer with his brothers, experiencing the sting of unrequited love, and battling alcoholism. Day-Lewis, in an Academy Award-winning performance, brilliantly captures the wicked genius of Brown's mind as he observes the tone and timbre of his local Ireland with courage and determination. His physical characterization of Brown's condition, portrayed with remarkably little sentimentality, is absolutely astounding. A first-rate ensemble cast includes Hugh O'Connor as young Christy and Brenda Fricker (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar) and Ray McAnally as his devoted parents.
Though Brown's subsequent growth into an artist of great profundity is nothing short of miraculous, he is never presented in the film as anything more nor less than human. Director Jim Sheridan contributes to a fully three-dimensional portrait of the artist by showing such things as Brown playing soccer with his brothers, experiencing the sting of unrequited love, and battling alcoholism. Day-Lewis, in an Academy Award-winning performance, brilliantly captures the wicked genius of Brown's mind as he observes the tone and timbre of his local Ireland with courage and determination. His physical characterization of Brown's condition, portrayed with remarkably little sentimentality, is absolutely astounding. A first-rate ensemble cast includes Hugh O'Connor as young Christy and Brenda Fricker (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar) and Ray McAnally as his devoted parents.