Lorenzo's Oil

Buy This Item Lorenzo's Oil by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 9-19-2008     With this powerful 1992 drama, director-producer George Miller (<I>The Road Warrior</I>) 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, <I>Lorenzo's Oil</I> 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. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews This is an excellent movie. I had to view the movie for a science class I was taking and it was very good. I probably would never have watched the movie if it wasn't part of an assignment...I'm glad I did!

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