Lorenzo's Oil

Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

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Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon are intellectual parents Augusto and Michaela Odone, in a relentless search for a cure for their son, Lorenzo's, Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).

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Deliberate mistake: When Michaela reads "The Once and Future King" to Lorenzo, she doesn't start at the beginning, even though she's never read him that book before. Not only does she not open the book to the first page, the words she reads are not at the beginning of the book (I believe they are about three or four chapters in).

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Professor Nikolias: Do you know how many children die every year from choking on french fries? Many more than from Adrenoleukodistrophy. You see, ours is what is known as an orphan disease, too small to be noticed, too small to be funded, especially with the iron hand of "Reganomics."

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Question: What is the music used in the scene where Augusto tells Lorenzo the story of "La Notte di San Lorenzo"? The credits identify all the music used in the film, but they don't say what music was used where.

Answer: It's "Casta Diva" from the opera "Norma" by Bellini.

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