My Left Foot

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Jim Sheridan directs 'Brothers'

...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

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  1. 16 hours ago

    boston.com - Latest movie news

    "Tobey controls his life to a very exacting degree," says "Brothers" director Jim Sheridan ("My Left Foot," "In the Name of the Father").

  2. January 15, 2009

    boston.com - Celebrity news

    "This is a story of a corrupt system and about how an angry guy became the second most wanted man after Bin Laden," the Irish filmmaker said in an e-mail. The director of such Oscar nominated films as "In the Name of the Father" and "My Left Foot" is making a movie based on "Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob,"

  3. November 19, 2008

    Guardian Unlimited

    "Films have won Oscars with stars 'cripping up', as they call it: Born On the Fourth of July, My Left Foot, The Piano," says Edgar.

  4. January 28, 2008

    Fox News Entertainment

    "There Will Be Blood" and Julie Christie of "Away From Her" won the lead-acting honors, also giving them a boost to win the same trophies at the Oscars. Day-Lewis dedicated his win to Heath Ledger, the 28-year-old Australian actor who was found dead in his Manhattan loft last week. "In 'Brokeback Mountain,' he was unique, he was perfect," said Day-Lewis, already an Oscar winner for "My Left Foot." "That scene in the trailer at the end of the film is as moving as anything I think I've ever seen."