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Financial performance
Reference figures based on available reported data.Domestic gross
$7.4M
Estimated from worldwide grossInternational gross
$7.4M
Estimated from worldwide grossOpening weekend
$1.3M
Estimated from worldwide grossRanking context
Where My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown ranks
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How did My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) perform at the box office?
High confidenceMy Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) earned a reported $14.7M worldwide against a reported $645.2K production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $14.1M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 22.85x. In this database it currently ranks #6,588 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #68 among 1989 releases.
- Worldwide gross
- $14,743,391
- Budget
- $645,180
- Gross minus budget
- $14,098,211
- ROI
- 22.85x
Synopsis
Story
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
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Why this movie matters
Released in 1989, My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is positioned in this dataset as a Drama title from Ferndale Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $14.7M, reported production budget is $645,180, gross-minus-budget is $14.1M, ROI is 22.85x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,588 all-time in the current chart set and #68 among 1989 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.
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