My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
Taste attributes: dramabiographyslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticintricategrittyemotive & stirringcomplex relationship
"A film about life, laughter, and the occasional miracle."
Boxlist takeA grounded, inventive drama: weighty and slow-paced. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: gritty · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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- Setting / scale: Balanced setting / scale, just how this profile likes it
- Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
- Originality: Fresh / original, just how this profile likes it
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- Realism: True to life, where this profile leans balanced realism
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Synopsis
In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to have a intellectual disability for the first ten years of his life.
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- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Ferndale Films
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Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.
