Lorenzo's Oil (DVD, 1992) Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon Region 4 &2

With this powerful 1992 drama, director-producer George Miller (The Road Warrior) 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, Lorenzo's Oil 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.

Condition

Very good: An item that is used but still in very good condition. 

Type

Dvd

Format

DVD

Region Code

DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...), DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)

Release Year

1992

Language

English

Actor

Nick Nolte, Colin Ward, Margo Martindale, Peter Ustinov, James Rebhorn, Mary Wakio, Latanya Richardson Jackson, Jennifer Dundas, Maduka Steady, Ann Hearn, Susan Sarandon, Don Suddaby, William Cameron, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman

Rating

PG

Director

George Miller

Genre

Drama

Run Time

130 Mins

Movie/TV Title

Lorenzo's Oil

Studio

Universal

UPC

3259190360396