Plot
A boy 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.
Release Year: 1992
Rating: 7.0/10 (9,279 voted)
Director:
George Miller
Stars: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov
Storyline Until about the age of 7, 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: 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.
Writers: George Miller, Nick Enright
Cast: Nick Nolte
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Augusto Odone
Susan Sarandon
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Michaela Odone
Peter Ustinov
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Professor Nikolais
Kathleen Wilhoite
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Deirdre Murphy
Gerry Bamman
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Doctor Judalon
Margo Martindale
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Wendy Gimble
James Rebhorn
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Ellard Muscatine
Ann Hearn
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Loretta Muscatine
Maduka Steady
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Omouri
Mary Wakio
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Comorian Teacher
Don Suddaby
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Don Suddaby
Colin Ward
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Jake Gimble
LaTanya Richardson
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Nurse Ruth
(as La Tanya Richardson)
Jennifer Dundas
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Nurse Nancy Jo
William Cameron
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Pellerman
Taglines:
Some people make their own miracles.
Release Date: 15 January 1993
Filming Locations: Carnegie Mellon University - 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $30,000,000
(estimated)
Gross: $7,286,388
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Lorenzo Odone, who doctors had predicted would die in childhood, died Friday May 30, 2008 - one day after his 30th birthday.
Quotes: Augusto Odone:
Dr. Nikolias, what about the other boys, what results are you seeing in them? Professor Nikolias:
As with Lorenzo it's too early to tell. We need this study to run for the full six months. Augusto Odone:
And that would tell you what is obvious right now? That avoiding apple skins and pizza has no effect on this brutal disease?
User Review
A story about hope.
Rating: 9/10
Lorenzo's oil
A true story about a battle for the life of Lorenzo who suffers from ALD.
A
rare disease which destroys all basic functions like speech and movement
and
in the end takes the life of the person.
In this movie the parents fight the clock by doing their own research and
investigation.
This is a true masterpiece, about hope. Acting and directing are
fabulous.
You can feel the cast being involved.
I have seen a a lot of movies of Nick Nolte , but this must be one of his
better ones. Here he proves he can do more than "another 48 hours". Nick
is
convincing in every way in this movie,
even though he has a very hard part playing an Italian(Augusto
Odone).
Susan Sarandon plays the mother of Lorenzo. It's incredible how she plays
the part of a mother near the end of her powers pushing away everybody
that
does not share the same faith in saving the life of her
son.
This movie is underrated, and should be given a chance. I seen a lot of
movies and normally i do not watch this kind of movies, they cannot hold m
y
attention for long.
But this one is different and really heartbreaking.
I had never heard about ALD. So today i did some investigation, and found
out that Lorenzo still lives and you can write him if you want
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