My Left Foot: A Film About An Heroic Mother?

An excerpt from My Left Foot has just been shown on a Top 50 Actors of all time programme. My mother described this film to me as being about a heroic mother. But sadly it was not Brenda Fricker who was up for a gong at 15th in the world actors' actors poll.

Perhaps mother got the wrong end of the stick then? Not like her.