My Left Foot

Empathy must come as naturally as breathing to the Irishman Jim Sheridan, director of My Left Foot, In America, and now the overpoweringly intimate Brothers. Working with screenwriter David Benioff (25th Hour), he skips among three...

In this article: Sam Shepard, Brothers, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire, An Education, David Benioff, and Natalie Portman

...good flight, and they treat me well. All the air hostesses know me. SMITH: You're best known for your films about the Irish experience, "My Left Foot," "In the Name of the Father," "In America," about the Irish diaspora, and this is quite a...

In this article: Jim Sheridan, Natalie Portman, Brothers, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, In the Name of the Father, Public Radio, Marine, and Afghanistan

...you would not necessarily tap this Dublin-based director -- no matter how distinguished his track record for such superb films as My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and In America -- for this job, but producer Ryan Kavanagh insisted...

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...shifting relationships between parents and children and among siblings. Think of Daniel Day-Lewis as an artist with cerebral palsy in "My Left Foot" and Brenda Fricker as the mother who finds a balance between doing too much for him and...

In this article: Jim Sheridan, Brothers, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniel Day-Lewis, In America, Afghanistan, Dublin, San Francisco Chronicle, and Cerebral palsy

...subjected to torture in captivity. "Tobey controls his life to a very exacting degree,'' says "Brothers'' director Jim Sheridan ("My Left Foot,'' "In the Name of the Father''). "He's very de rigueur in his choice of what he eats as well as...

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...Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mare Winningham and Natalie Portman shine in a wrenching story of family and war, directed by Jim ("My Left Foot") Sheridan. "Everybody's Fine" (PG-13): Robert De Niro plays a widowed father traveling the...

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...of the ol' magic that has since been ceded to Pixar. Brothers (Dec. 4). It's directed by Jim Sheridan, who got Oscar nominations for My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. It's written by David Benioff (25th Hour, The Kite Runner),...

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...of director Jim Sheridan -- "his films have earned 16 nominations, including nods for 'In America,' 'In the Name of the Father' and 'My Left Foot.' " As Pete recounts, "Sheridan received a tremendous ovation Sunday afternoon when he was...

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...Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." In films, Daniel Day-Lewis received an Academy Award for his portrayal of a man with severe cerebral palsy in "My Left Foot" and Tom Cruise was nominated for an Oscar for playing a paralyzed Vietnam veteran in...

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