Lorenzo's Oil
Dec 30, 1992 | IMDB 7.1
135 min Watch NowDrama
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.
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