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Lorenzo's Oil

Where:

🇰🇲 Comoros Pennsylvania

When:

The 1980s The 1990s

Some people make their own miracles. — Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7, until he started experiencing blackouts, memory lapses and other strange mental phenomena. Eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD—an extremely rare and incurable degenerative brain disorders—his parents, frustrated at the failings of conventional medicine, start their quest for an unothadox treatment.

Released in 1992 — 135 minutes

Genre:

Drama

Languages:

English French Spanish Hungarian