My Left Foot: the coal scenes ( Daniel Day Lewis, 1989)
Their family living in poverty in Dublin, Christy Brown his brothers execute a cunning heist of a coal truck to the dismay of their mother. The father s happy though, until he discovers what s been hidden in the fireplace cash stashed to buy Christy a wheelchair. He later comes round to the idea. Cathartic classic for which Daniel Brenda Fricker (Christy s mum) won Oscars, 1989.
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