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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Sep 9, 2011
Pros: very intriguing, emotional, true story; acting/cast
Cons: what a nightmare for parents...
Summary: I first became interested in watching 1992's Lorenzo's Oil when I recently enjoyed a similar movie named Extraordinary Measures starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Glaser. Then epinionater talyseon hinted that the 1992 movie could be ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 7, 2007
Pros: Good story, Fabulous acting
Cons: None
Summary: This is the story of a little boy named Lorenzo. His parents find out that their five year old son has ALD which is a rare terminal disease. This couple goes on the rampage learning all that they can about this disease and it's possible treatments. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 13, 2002
Pros: remarkable story, powerful acting, non-fictive element
Cons: none
Summary: I first saw Lorenzo's Oil during a high school biology class. The strange thing, I don't recall why we were shown the film. Mr. Lowery often showed films because we had no real reason to waste time with each and every chapter of our textbooks. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 8, 2002
Pros: story, cast, direction, script, sets
Cons: emotionally devastating, hard to watch, the happy ending is exaggerated
Summary: A harrowing and wrenching film that yet manages a happy ending, Lorenzo's Oil will never be popular for dates, kids, or parties. Yet the film has undeniable inspirational power, and for that reason it has had a shelf life beyond that of most ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 4, 2000
Pros: good presentation of the drama
Cons: too emotion-filled
Summary: Lorenzo's Oil exploits the possibilities and extent of human emotion. It is a film about discoveries. More than the scientific discovery, it reveals to us the never-ending power of human virtues such as faith, courage, determination, and love. It tells ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 28, 2000
Pros: Enlightening, honest, inspiring, well acted
Cons: None that I can see...top notch!
Summary: A parent's worst fear is to lose a much loved and treasured child...and the parents of Lorenzo Michael Murphy Odone were faced with just such a situation. From being a happy, articulate, intelligent child Lorenzo suddenly deteriorated to being immobile, ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 21, 2000
Pros: extremely moving tale about a child's experience with ALD, it shows the steps and symptoms of what an actual ALD person with the childhood form would undergo
Cons: at the end I believe they should have told you where you could find information on Lorenzo's current condition
Summary: I believe that this was a beautiful portrayal of the life of a child experiencing the childhood form of ALD, since this is the most severe forms of the disease.
It was extremely moving to see how the parents became involved with their sons illness, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 8, 2000
Pros: Awe inspiring, amazing what these people did
Cons: None other than feeling somewhat depressed for poor Lorenzo
Summary: Adrenoleukodystrophy. ALD Prognosis, only 2 years to live. How would you feel if that is what you were told about your beautiful 5 year old son?
As the movie opens, the Odone family is getting ready to leave Africa, and return home. Living ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 1, 2000
Pros: powerful story, excellent performances
Cons: hard to watch child suffering
Summary: This is the true story of Italian banker Augusto Odone (Nick Nolte) and his wife Michaela (Susan Sarandon). In 1984, their 6 year old son Lorenzo was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD, a genetically transmitted disease that strikes only boys. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 27, 2000
Pros: touching, realistic, honest look at childhood illness
Cons: heart wrenching at times, tear jerker
Summary: Absolutely my favorite movie of all time, I've seen Lorenzo's Oil thirty or forty times, shown it at my medical school to other young student doctors, and recommended it to everyone I know. It's based on the true story of the Odone's, who found a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 13, 2000
Pros: Excellent story of parents' determination
Cons: None
Summary: "Lorenzo's Oil" is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It is the most touching and heart wrenching film in the last ten years.
It is the true story of the Odone family's struggle with their son and a neurological degenerative ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 3, 2000
Pros: wonderful and inspiring
Cons: none, unless you miss it
Summary: This movie is most likely the best I have ever seen. What makes it so great is not the acting, camera work or car chases (there aren't any) but the story itself. "Lorenzo's Oil" is based upon a true story of the tenacity of the love of ... read more
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Rated Show by the Epinions community Feb 24, 2006
Pros: inspirational, moving, amazing; great performances by Sarandon and Nolte
Cons: sad, true, heartwrenching, kind of dragged through the research portion
Summary: I have wanted to see this movie since it came out in theaters years and years ago... but never got to see it. Thank God for TiVo, I saw that it was going to be on and recorded it. I watched it tonight and now I remember why I wanted to see it so badly
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