My Left Foot

...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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...prior films have garnered 16 Academy Award® nominations and won two Academy Awards, for lead actors Daniel Day Lewis and Brenda Fricker in MY LEFT FOOT: THE STORY OF CHRISTY BROWN. Sheridan has personally been nominated six times, for writing...

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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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