Jim Sheridan

Jim Sheridan is an accomplished film director and play writer. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. He moved to America in 1982.

Sheridan's directorial debut was My Left Foot based on the life of Christy Brown who was challenged by Cerebral Palsy. Other films directed by him are The Field , In the Name of the Father, The Boxer | In America, and Get Rich or Die Tryin'. His latest movie is Brothers.

I find in modern cinema now...people don't like the mystic or the spiritual. It's become almost a dirty word now.

We didn't have a sense of being poor. We came from Ireland where you could literally be poor because there was about 17 percent unemployment and 15 percent interest rates and inflation, you know, and a war going on, so to come here wasn't as edgy... it seemed an easier place to live in. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006487/bio