He was raised up in a poverty-stricken family and later started working as a writer and an artist. He had no control of his body except in his left foot. The film shows the story of Brown, who is an Irish man who has suffered from cerebral palsy since birth. There on HBO, My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown, aka My Left Foot, is a 1989 film documentary inspired by the 1954 Christy Brown’s by the same name.