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Name: Lorenzo's Oil
Released: 1992-12-30
Cast: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman

Lorenzo's Oil

PG-13
2h 15m
1992

93%

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Oscar® nominee Nick Nolte and Academy Award® winner Susan Sarandon star in this powerful and unforgettable drama based on a true story. For Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nolte and Sarandon), the news that their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, has a rare terminal disease is sobering, to learn there is no known cure is devastating. Despite the prognosis, the Odones embark on an extraordinary mission of love, consulting and sometimes colliding with the world's top doctors and scientists in the quest to save their son. Their relentless struggle tests their marriage, their beliefs and the boundaries of conventional medicine in this critically acclaimed hit from director George Miller (The Witches of Eastwick).

Director:

George Miller

Producer:

George Miller, Doug Mitchell

Writer:

George Miller, Nick Enright

Cast:

Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman, Margo Martindale, James Rebhorn, Ann Hearn, Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

93%

Critics Consensus: A harrowing tribute to the heroism of parental love, Lorenzo's Oil is kept from abject misery by George Miller's sensitive direction and outstanding performances from Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon.

Reviews

Southern Voice (Atlanta)

Steve Warren

Director George Miller sometimes wrings extra emotion from a story that has more than it needs, but don't let that discourage you from seeing this moving tribute to patient advocacy.

"Lorenzo's Oil" is suddenly current again in the COVID-19 era, what with tracks leading to Big Pharma and a famed UFC commentator extolling the virtues of Ivermectin, essentially making it the Lorenzo's Oil of the 2020s.

Miller imbues the film with such emotional intensity and conviction that you can't help but get caught up in their plight, cheering them on through every obstacle even as we recognize that whatever victory they may attain can only be partial.

Miller finds humor and horror in medical politics. And, with surgical resolve, he cuts to the emotional quick: the drama is heartrending.

It is as if we are being jollied along and made to realize, in case we weren't capable of getting there by ourselves, 'this is terribly sad', and, 'this is tremendously uplifting.'

July 25, 2018

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