Lorenzo's Oil
by George Miller (II)
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Actor: Gerry Bamman, Kathleen Wilhoite, Nick Nolte, Peter Ustinov, Susan SarandonDirector: George Miller (II)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Lorenzo's Oil
Movie Review: Lorenzo Odone, who doctors had predicted would die in childhood, died one day after his 30th birthday
Summary: 5 Stars
May 31, 2008. From the Associated Press:
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.
Summary of 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 KeoghDrama DVD Video
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