Daily BirthdaysLorenzo's Oil (1993)
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| Directed by | George Miller (II) |
| Cast | Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman, Becky Ann Baker, Ann Dowd, Ann Hearn, Margo Martindale and James Rebhorn |
| Theatrical Release | January 15, 1993 |
| DVD Release | April 6, 2004 |
| Running Time | 136 minutes |
| MPAA Rating | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| UPC Code | 025192197024 |
| Buy this item | $8.49 at Amazon.com As of Jun 30 3:24 EDT (details) 1 DVD, Universal Studios, Usually ships in 24 hours, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language) Or 36 new from $3.97, 20 used from $3.81 |
About Lorenzo's Oil
With this powerful 1992 drama, director-producer George Miller (The Road Warrior) proved that a movie about a disease doesn't have to be a typical disease-of-the-week movie. Based on the real-life case of the Odones family, the story concerns 5-year-old Lorenzo, suffering mightily from an apparently incurable and degenerative brain illness called A.L.D. His parents, an economist (Nick Nolte) and a linguist (Susan Sarandon), refuse to accept the received wisdom that there is no hope, and set about learning biochemistry to pursue a cure on their own. The film becomes an intriguing scientific mystery mixed with a story of pain, grief, and the strain on the two adults. In other words, Lorenzo's Oil is similar to all those medical-mayhem TV flicks but with some key differences: a pair of great actors in Sarandon and Nolte--who actually do some of the finest work of their careers here--and Miller's bold and typically inventive direction. Miller, a doctor himself, refuses to shirk from the chaos and horrors of a child's agony, and he makes us hear the death chains rattling behind images that would be purely sentimental in another director's hands. --Tom Keogh Amazon.com essential video
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(50 reviews) |  | Lorenzo Odone, who doctors had predicted would die in childhood, died one day after his 30th birthday |  |
WASHINGTON (AP) - The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was depicted in the movie "Lorenzo's Oil" died Friday at his home in Virginia, having lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted.
June 1, 2008
| | | One of my favorite movies of all time. | |
| | | Lorenzo's Oil | |
| | | Just a moving story | |
| | | Great True Life Story | |