Academy Award® Winner Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis
Academy Award® Winner Best Supporting Actress Brenda Fricker
MY LEFT FOOT
COLLECTOR’S EDITION DVD
Includes All-New Bonus Features
And Digitally Remastered Picture And Sound
BURBANK, Calif., June 1, 2005 – Miramax Home Entertainment proudly presents the much-anticipated MY
LEFT FOOT COLLECTOR’S EDITION DVD, starring Daniel Day-Lewis, who won the Academy Award®
for Best Actor (1989) for the film. Digitally remastered, and featuring previously unavailable bonus materials,
this is the Collector’s Edition that every film fan will want to own. This enormously entertaining and
rewarding film is available on August 16th for $19.99 (S.R.P.).
For the first time, these bonus features are available:
• The Real Christy Brown
• An Inspirational Journey: The Making of MY LEFT FOOT
• Still Photo Gallery
An alternative to the general run of “triumph over the odds” biopics, MY LEFT FOOT is the true story of Irish
cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown. Paralyzed from birth, Brown (played by Hugh O'Conor (“Chocolat”) as a
child and Daniel Day-Lewis as an adult) is written off as retarded and helpless. But Christy's indomitable
mother (Brenda Fricker, who won the Academy Award® (1989) for Best Supporting Actress for her role)
never gives up on the boy. Using his left foot, the only part of his body not afflicted, Brown learns to write. He
grows up to become a well-known author, painter, and fundraiser, and along the way falls in love with his
nurse (Ruth McCabe).
MY LEFT FOOT was also Oscar®-nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay,
1989.
Screenplay by Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan. From the book by Christy Brown. Directed by Jim
Sheridan (“In America,” “The Boxer,” “In The Name of the Father”).
STREET DATE: AUGUST 16, 2005
Direct prebook: June 21
Distributor prebook: July 5
Suggested retail price: $19.99 (DVD)
Rated: “R”
Bonus materials not rated and subject to change.
Feature running time: Approximately 103 minutes.
DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 enhanced for 16x9 TV screens
DVD Sound: Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
DVD Language: English, French audio
French, Spanish subtitles
Miramax Home Entertainment is distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., a recognized industry
leader. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt
Disney, Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, Dimension and Buena Vista videocassettes and DVDs.
© Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc.
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