TY - ADVS AU - Sheridan,Jim AU - Connaughton,Shane AU - Pearson,Noel AU - Day-Lewis,Daniel AU - McAnally,Ray AU - Fricker,Brenda AU - Bernstein,Elmer AU - Brown,Christy TI - My left foot: the story of Christy Brown SN - 0788828738 U1 - DVD 310 PY - 1989///, 2002 CY - New York, NY PB - GRANADA VENTURES KW - Brown, Christy, KW - Cerebral palsied KW - Drama N1 - Based on the book by Christy Brown. 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.; Music composed and directed by Elmer Bernstein ; executive producers, Paul Heller and Steve Morrison; Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Cyril Cusack, Fiona Shaw, Hugh O'Conor, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan N2 - Based on cerebral-palsied Christy Brown's true life story, My left foot features Daniel Day-Lewis' Academy Award-winning performance as a man who triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatnesss ER -