My Left Foot | | Cast : | Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker | | Director : | Jim Sheridan | | Studio : | Buena Vista Home Vid | | Format : | Color | | Released Date : | November 10, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | August 16, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 10, 2005 | | Summary | Master OF The rare LASERDISCs Movies. | Content
 | I have MY LEFT FOOT ON LASERDISC And I am gonna get the Special Edition DVD too..you too don't mess it,you'll love this one :P |
| Rating | | | Date | February 15, 2005 | | Summary | Ireland's triumph! | Content
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This masterwork around the awful disgrace of a man who just can move his only foot is a wisdom experience of life about how strive against the adversity and the fate.
Superb performance of Daniel Day Lewis and overwhelming acting of Brenda Fricker who were happy winners of the Academy Award.
A must see and a towering film.
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| Rating | | | Date | September 12, 2004 | | Summary | A movie I will forever remember! | Content
| Parents out there: let me put it to you this way...My parents are very conservative, but appreciate great acting when they see it. So, G and only some PG movies were my only viewings. At the age of 7, my mother saw this on VHS, she immediately had me watch it with the rest of the family.
This movie will reach your inner soul and make you see that physical and mental disabilities only hold a person back if they let it. This story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy teaches himself and learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. It's based on his autobiography which he typed one letter at a time on his typewriter.
Now, I do admit that you'll have trouble understanding Christy sometimes, caused by his disease. My family had me "translate" what they couldn't understand (I was deaf for a short time of my life, so I related more to the story).
When I have children, I plan to allow them to watch this life changing movie. I will forever remember it, because the true story of Christy Brown touched me deeply. Wait until you see it, you'll know what I'm talking about afterwards.
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| Rating | | | Date | October 23, 2003 | | Summary | My Left Foot = Stunning | Content
| I will admit, I am one of the most picky film reviewers that has ever lived, and I have only ever given three films in my life a straight five out of five stars, however this film comes out as a four and a half out of five. Defiantly one of the most powerful films I have ever witnessed, and is on my top ten greatest films of all time list. Daniel Day-Lewis, who I have to admit I did not really cared for until I saw this film, gives a powerful tour de force of a performance, that shifts you from tears to joy and back again in only a few short minutes. However Day-Lewis is not the one who shines out above the rest, that is done by Brenda Fricker, in a stunningly beautiful performance, one of the greatest I have ever seen done by a female actor, both Fricker and Day-Lewis did above and beyond in their roles, and most defiantly deserved their Oscars. The direction is also dead on, along with the script, overall the entire film is an experience of a life time, by far the best movies of 1989, and one of the greatest achievement in film of all time. |
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