Stars: Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandan.
This film, based on a true story, is about two parents going through the hardships of having a son dying of the disease ALD, and how they try to learn to help him. Let me first say this film is very depressing. It really tries to show what a terrible disease ALD is, and portrays many seizures and horrible happenings. Where this was a depressing film, it was also entertaining for me. I was very in to the story. However, it has some flaws. It is too fast paced for it's own good. There must be 100 different scenes in the film. While the fast pace helped to push the story along, it also caused "Lorenzo's Oil" to have no character development prior to the diagnosis. As for the acting, it was very good I thought, except Nick Nolte. Where he did do a good Italian accent, it seemed a though he would push it really strong one moment, and the next he'd have a light accent. And one pretty minor other annoyance was Lorenzo's voice. Lorenzo's screams were provided by voice over actress E.G. Daily, and you could tell a grown woman was doing this voice. It kind of sidetracked me from the story. But other than that, this was a good drama, portraying horrors beyond our control.
My rating: ** 1/2 out of ****. 124 mins. PG for brief language
This film, based on a true story, is about two parents going through the hardships of having a son dying of the disease ALD, and how they try to learn to help him. Let me first say this film is very depressing. It really tries to show what a terrible disease ALD is, and portrays many seizures and horrible happenings. Where this was a depressing film, it was also entertaining for me. I was very in to the story. However, it has some flaws. It is too fast paced for it's own good. There must be 100 different scenes in the film. While the fast pace helped to push the story along, it also caused "Lorenzo's Oil" to have no character development prior to the diagnosis. As for the acting, it was very good I thought, except Nick Nolte. Where he did do a good Italian accent, it seemed a though he would push it really strong one moment, and the next he'd have a light accent. And one pretty minor other annoyance was Lorenzo's voice. Lorenzo's screams were provided by voice over actress E.G. Daily, and you could tell a grown woman was doing this voice. It kind of sidetracked me from the story. But other than that, this was a good drama, portraying horrors beyond our control.
My rating: ** 1/2 out of ****. 124 mins. PG for brief language