Lorenzo's Oil
Lorenzo's Oil

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- 73/100 based on 23,535 votes
  • Released: 1992
  • Runtime: 135 mins
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  • Studio: Kennedy Miller Productions
  • Genres: Drama

Until about the age of seven, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD (adrenoleukodystrophy): an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves in the hope of discovering something which can halt t... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Lorenzo's Oil:

Nick Nolte
Susan Sarandon
Peter Ustinov
Ann Hearn
Maduka Steady
Aaron Jackson

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Until about the age of seven, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD (adrenoleukodystrophy): an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves in the hope of discovering something which can halt the progress of the disease.

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Tampa Bay Times - 10/10 by Steve PersallAs directed by George Miller, this film has an appealingly brisk, unsentimental style and a rare ability to compress and convey detailed medical data. It also displays tremendous compassion for all three Odones and what they have been through.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertYou may have heard that Lorenzo's Oil is a harrowing movie experience. It is, but in the best way. 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 Seattle Times - 9/10 by Jeff ShannonLorenzo’s Oil is at once harrowing and riveting. In the age of AIDS, it has telling observations to make about how the institutionalized complacency of the medical establishment actually works. As remarkable a job as Miller and the actors have done, though, the film begins to wear you down. At 2 hours and 15 minutes, it’s far too long, and (more crucially) it has a flat, repetitive structure.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - 9/10 by Chris HicksThe real knockout here, however, is Sarandon, who is absolutely riveting. She's every bit as wrenching, touching and fulfilling as the film itself.
Los Angeles Times - 9/10 by Kenneth TuranWhere most movies lie, Lorenzo's Oil tells the truth and pays the price. In a genre rife with romantic sentimentality, this film won't trifle with its integrity and ends up not artificially uplifting but heart-rending and exhausting. Based on a true story, it shows how dreadfully hard you have to fight to make a difference, and how grueling it can be to save even a single human life.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyIt takes time to get over Nick Nolte's "wrong" accent, but Susan Sarandon gives a marvelous performance in the George Miller-directed, fact-based drama about a family torn by the degenerative disease of their young boy. Tough but rewarding film to watch
Chicago Reader - 9/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumIn its own quiet way this is an astonishing film, both as a medical detective story that sustains taut interest over an extended running time and as a piece of cinema combining unusually resourceful acting and direction. 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.
El Pais (Spain) - 8/10 by Casimiro TorreiroThis curious element, inserted in a fiction that is so traditional that it seems fusty and that [director George] Miller serves with dynamism and conviction... [Full review in Spanish]
Common Sense Media - 8/10 by Barbara ShulgasserIntense film about a boy's fatal illness has heavy themes.
Time Out - 8/10 by Geoff AndrewThe 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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