Lorenzo's Oil
The film tells the true-life drama of a father and mother who battled against the odds to save their son's life. Their son develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.
11 December 1958
1 September 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 February 1953, Fort Knox, Kentucky, USA
8 February 1953, Bari, Puglia, Italy
August 30, 2016
Intense film about a boy's fatal illness has heavy themes.October 07, 2012
Exhausting, intelligent and undeniably moving.February 09, 2006
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.July 05, 2008
perhaps the most melodramatic movie everJanuary 01, 2000
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.March 26, 2009
Sarandon ... convincingly conveys a fierceness and tenacity that is almost frightening. The character never lets up, and neither does the film.January 01, 2000
Don't go to it for a Hollywood happy ending. Go to it to learn what it can take to be alive.May 20, 2003
This film has an appealingly brisk, unsentimental style and a rare ability to compress and convey detailed medical data.October 07, 2012
Lumbers along worthily.February 14, 2007
It 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 watchOctober 07, 2012
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.October 07, 2012
[Sarandon gives] a brave, complex performance, and the centerpiece of an emotionally searing film.