Along the way it shows his progress from an extraordinarily difficult childhood to adulthood, and to success as the very thing he wasn't supposed to be capable of becoming: a communicator and artist with an international reputation. The movie follows him from his birth in 1932, in Dublin, until he's in his late 20s and meets a young nurse who will later marry him. But it's quite a foot, the way Brown has trained it - capable of typing, painting, and accomplishing many of life's daily tasks. Brown is almost completely paralyzed, able to move only his left foot. The hero of ``My left Foot'' is Christy Brown, a real-life writer and painter whose autobiography is the basis for the movie. This is partly because of its subject, and partly because of a remarkable performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, whose foot - and yes, the rest of him - is as eloquent as anything a movie has shown us in quite a while. `MY LEFT FOOT'' must be one of the year's least-promising movie titles, but the film behind it is surprisingly memorable.
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