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Lorenzo's Oil is a 1992 drama film directed and co-written by George Miller. It is based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone, parents who search for a cure for their son Lorenzo's adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), leading to the development of Lorenzo's oil.
Dec 22, 2021 · Based on a true story, the film is about a boy named Lorenzo Odone. He is diagnosed with a rare disease called adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) after he begins to experience seizures, hearing loss,...
Jul 21, 2004 · Lorenzo's oil: The full story. Lorenzo Odone is 25 years old and lives in Washington. Eighteen years ago he was diagnosed with an incurable disease and given less than two years to live. His...
Nov 17, 2023 · The FDA has not approved Lorenzo's oil to treat ALD or other conditions. It's only available through clinical trials. You can learn more about Lorenzo's oil from a neurologist or other ALD specialist.
A based-on-a-true-story medical drama set almost entirely in a handful of domestic and bureaucratic interiors, Lorenzo’s Oil focuses on deliberation over high-octane action, yet manages to showcase the dynamism of Miller’s purely visual storytelling and the framework of his Campbellian story-structure. Even the film’s epigraph, taken from ...
Nov 1, 2013 · With the help of a team of scientists, Odone and his wife eventually developed a chemical compound known as Lorenzo’s Oil which seemed to slow Lorenzo’s disease.
May 31, 2008 · The man whose parents' battle to save him from a nerve disease was depicted in the movie Lorenzo's Oil has died at his home in Virginia, having lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had...
Lorenzo's Oil ★★★ 1992 (PG-13) Based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone's efforts to find a cure for their five-year-old, Lorenzo, diagnosed with the rare and incurable disease ALD (Adrenoleukodystrophy).
Jan 29, 1993 · With Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite. Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Dec 30, 1992 · 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.
