Lorenzo's Oil

(1992)

★ 7.1 IMDb · 583 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1992

Runtime: 135 мин

Country: Australia

Director: Джордж Миллер

Cast: Ник Нолти, Сьюзан Сарандон, Питер Устинов, Ann Hearn, Maduka Steady, Aaron Jackson, Лора Линни, Kathleen Wilhoite, Gerry Bamman, Марго Мартиндейл

Plot

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.

Until about the age of seven, 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 (adrenoleukodystrophy): 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.