
Lorenzo's Oil
Drama • PG-13 • 1992 • 2 hr 15 min
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Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Starring
Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Ann Hearn, Maduka Steady
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User Reviews
Strength of film is watching a father work fanatically and relentlessly to find a cure for his son's chronic disease. A salute to families.
"A true life story brought too the screen and it's such a beautiful movie well made with star performances by Nolte and Sarandon"
Excellent drama with superb performances and direction
If you're feeling bad and want to continue, watch this movie. It's well acted and tells a good true story, but horrendously depressing.
Heartbreaking. Amazing story, but pretty long and slow.
Never in my life was I happier to see the ending of a movie. It's extremely hard to watch, but it's worth it.
I remember watching this in my ninth grade bio class and it terrified me. I’m too scared to rewatch, but it had to have been pretty good.
Lovely movie. The mother-son relationship was definitely the best but also the struggle of the hole family itself
I don’t know if I’m soured because I watched this in school, but it was just eh.
I couldn't stand Nick's performance, profoundly annoying. The story itself is great, that's it.
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6.4 – Based on 373 ratings
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