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Lorenzo's Oil (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
129 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
George Miller

Written By:
George Miller
Nick Enright

Actors:
Nick Nolte ..... Augusto Odone
Susan Sarandon ..... Michaela Odone
Peter Ustinov ..... Professor Nikolais
Kathleen Wilhoite ..... Deirdre Murphy
Gerry Bamman ..... Doctor Judalon
Margo Martindale ..... Wendy Gimble
James Rebhorn ..... Ellard Muscatine
Ann Hearn ..... Loretta Muscatine
Maduka Steady ..... Omouri
Mary Wakio ..... Comorian Teacher
Don Suddaby ..... Don Suddaby
Colin Ward ..... Jake Gimble
LaTanya Richardson ..... Nurse Ruth (as La Tanya Richardson)
Jennifer Dundas ..... Nurse Nancy Jo
William Cameron ..... Pellerman

Synopsis:

Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte give brilliant performances as parents trying to save the life of their son in George Miller's harrowing and heartbreaking Lorenzo's Oil. Based on a true story, the film begins as bright young Lorenzo (Zack O'Malley Greenburg) is leading a pleasant life on the Comoro Islands. But things start to go wrong with him -- he collapses, he raves, and he loses his hearing -- so his concerned parents, Augusto (Nick Nolte) and Michaela Odone (Susan Sarandon), take him to a doctor. The diagnosis is a death warrant; they are told that Lorenzo has been diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), an rare and incurable nerve disease that is always fatal. When Augusto and Michaela are told to be patient as they watch their son sink further into the debilitating illness, they take matters into their own hands and start their own investigation of the disease. Using rapeseed oil, they find their own treatment for ALD.

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.

A five-year-old boy, Lorenzo Odone, is diagnosed as having a brain disease known as ALD, a condition so rare that no medical body has undertaken to research the ailment and develop a cure. Desperate, Lorenzo's parents (Nolte and Sarandon) embark on a desperate search for a cure and must battle the medical establishment when they make astounding progress using humble olive oil...

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 01 April, 2010.