Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- bodily disabled person
- poet
- biography
- based on true story
- foot
- flashback
- author
- working class
- disabled
- cerebral palsy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Declan Croghan — Tom
- Eanna MacLiam — Benny
- Marie Conmee — Sadie
- Cyril Cusack — Lord Castlewelland
- Phelim Drew — Brian
- Ruth McCabe — Mary
- Fiona Shaw — Dr. Eileen Cole
- Ray McAnally — Mr. Brown
- Pat Laffan — Barman
- Derry Power — Customer in Bar
- Hugh O'Conor — Young Christy Brown
- Directed
- Jim Sheridan
- Written
- Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 1,057 ratings
- Studio
- Ferndale Films, Granada Television, RTÉ
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
