Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Believe it or not, Lorenzo’s Oil was shown to my sophomore science class. Can you imagine showing that movie to a bunch of fifteen-year-olds and expecting them to pay attention? I’d heard all about it for years prior, from my parents, but still it was far too heavy for me to resist numbing out and chatting with my best friend. A few years later, my mom insisted on a proper viewing: no friends around and an unopened box of Kleenex.
If you don’t know about the movie Susan Sarandon should have won her Oscar for, she plays the world’s most devoted mother. She and her Italian hunky hubby, Nick Nolte, are told the most terrible news by their son’s doctor: he has an incurable disease that will debilitate him into a vegetable for the brief remainder of his life. Based on a true story, Susan and Nick become super-parents, not only nursing their sick son but researching different possible cures and testing them out. This is a very upsetting movie to watch. The six children who played Lorenzo had to enact seizures, act paralyzed, and scream in agony. I guess it was all for a good cause, to bring awareness of this incredible story of two unusually loving and tenacious parents, but I wouldn’t let my kid act in this film.
After my mom saw this movie in the theaters, she came home and scooped my brother and I into her arms and covered us with tears and kisses. Lorenzo’s Oil makes every mother grateful to have a healthy child. And for someone who’s mom looks like Susan Sarandon, it makes me grateful to have someone so devoted always in my corner!
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to upsetting scenes involving children, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
More Susan Sarandon movies here!
If you don’t know about the movie Susan Sarandon should have won her Oscar for, she plays the world’s most devoted mother. She and her Italian hunky hubby, Nick Nolte, are told the most terrible news by their son’s doctor: he has an incurable disease that will debilitate him into a vegetable for the brief remainder of his life. Based on a true story, Susan and Nick become super-parents, not only nursing their sick son but researching different possible cures and testing them out. This is a very upsetting movie to watch. The six children who played Lorenzo had to enact seizures, act paralyzed, and scream in agony. I guess it was all for a good cause, to bring awareness of this incredible story of two unusually loving and tenacious parents, but I wouldn’t let my kid act in this film.
After my mom saw this movie in the theaters, she came home and scooped my brother and I into her arms and covered us with tears and kisses. Lorenzo’s Oil makes every mother grateful to have a healthy child. And for someone who’s mom looks like Susan Sarandon, it makes me grateful to have someone so devoted always in my corner!
Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to upsetting scenes involving children, I wouldn’t let my kids watch it.
More Susan Sarandon movies here!