![]() ![]() Presented with a copy of Brown's book, Mary leafs through its pages, and the author's life is re-created on the screen, beginning with his early years as the ninth of 13 survivingĬhildren (out of 22) in a close-knit, working-class Irish Catholic family. There, the wheelchair-bound Brown, guest of honor at a benefit dinner for aĬerebral palsy foundation, first meets Mary (Ruth McCabe), a young nurse assigned to care for him for the evening. Daniel Day-Lewis plays the acclaimed Irish-born artist and author, as the film intercuts flashbacks of his formative years with scenes at a stately Dublin home in 1959. ![]() The title of this screen adaptation of Christy Brown's best-selling autobiography refers to the only limb over which Brown, crippled since birth by a severeĬase of cerebral palsy, ever had any control. Stories about people overcoming devastating handicaps have long been grist for the filmmaker's mill. ![]()
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