Lorenzo's Oil (Blu-ray) PG-13
Some people make their own miracles.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nick Nolte & Susan Sarandon | |
Performer: | Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Laura Linney, Gerry Bamman, Margo Martindale, James Rebhorn, Ann Hearn & Ann Dowd | |
Directed by | George Miller | |
Produced by | George Miller & Doug Mitchell | |
Director of Photography: | John Seale |
Entertainment Reviews:
The film comes over as a tour de force version of the disease-of-the-week TV movie: half scientific detective story, half domestic drama, replete with scenes of suffering.
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Time Out
...It takes a heartbreaking story and pushes it to the limit, showing us the lengths of courage and imagination that people can summon when they must. The performances, by Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte, are daring, too...
Chicago Sun-Times
The questions this movie raises about the medical establishment, drug testing and the clash between science and compassion cannot fail to evoke the battles raging over AIDS. Lorenzo's Oil is strong medicine indeed.
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Newsweek
...[A] cinematic wonder....An exhilarating experience akin to watching a breathless mystery thriller unfold... -- 4 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Miller finds humor and horror in medical politics. And, with surgical resolve, he cuts to the emotional quick: the drama is heartrending.
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Maclean's Magazine
If any movie of recent years deserves to be called "inspirational"--a much-abused term that one hesitates to revive apart from exceptional circumstances--this one certainly does.
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Chicago Reader
Lumbers along worthily.
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Film4
Product Description:
Based on a true 1985 story, "Lorenzo's Oil" chronicles a couple's search for a cure for their son's fatal disease. After diagnosing 5-year-old Lorenzo Odone's condition as an extremly rare degeneration of the nervous system known as Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), the doctors tell his parents that there is nothing that can be done, and that he has only two years to live. Refusing to accept the word of the medical establishment, the Odones begin researching ALD themselves. As her husband desperately seeks a cure, the boy's mother devotes herself to keeping her child alive with a single-minded fanaticism that alienates everyone around her, including, at times, her husband. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best (Original) Screenplay, Best Actress--Susan Sarandon.
Keywords:
Family Interaction
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Tear Jerker
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Children
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Illness
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Personal Triumph
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Recommended
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Doctors
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Parenthood
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Achievers
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Heartwarming
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Health
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Parents
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Family Crises
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Fathers And Sons
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Diseases
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 14,001
- UPC: 738329248116
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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