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Influenced by the poem of the same name by Larysa Musick
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Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$300

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.