My Left Foot (3/10) Movie CLIP - Christy Plays Soccer (1989) HD

My Left Foot movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Christy (Daniel Day-Lewis) celebrates his seventeenth birthday and plays soccer with his brothers and the neighborhood boys. FILM DESCRIPTION: An alternative to the general run of “triumph over the odds“ biopics, My Left Foot is the true story of Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown. Paralyzed from birth, Brown (played by Hugh O’Conor as child and Daniel Day-Lewis as an adult) is written off as retarded and helpless. But Christy’s indomitable mother (Brenda Fricker) never gives up on the boy. Using his left foot, the only part of his body not afflicted, Brown learns to write. He grows up to become a well-known author, painter, and fundraiser, and along the way falls in love with nurse Mary Carr (Ruth McCabe). There’s no sugarcoating in My Left Foot: Brown, a heavy drinker, was by no means lovable