Based on a true story, Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon play Augusto and Michaela Odone, two devoted and courageous parents who suddenly discover that their five-year-old son Lorenzo has developed ALD, a mysterious disease that is considered to be fatal. Soon Lorenzo begins to experience seizures, screaming fits, mental and physical disorders (deafness, paralysis) and finally a rare brain deterioration. Against all odds, the Odones fight the medical establishment, researchers, and even the parents of children who suffer from the disease to find a cure for their son.

This screen version of the Broadway musical, with songs by Irving Berlin, stars Victor Moore as a US Senator Oliver P. Loganberry, who heads an investigation into political corruption in New Orleans, which the lawyer (Bob Hope) attempts tothwart. Many of the original stage members were recruited for this film, including Victor Moore, Vera Zorina, […]

In this romantic melodrama, directed by Alexander Hall, Spring Byington goes to live with her son (Ronald Reagan) and his wife (Ruth Hussey), where she is courted by two men: Edmund Gwenn and Charles Coburn. Piper Laurie makes her screen acting debut as Byington’s grandaughter. Oscar Nominations: 1 Sound Recording: Leslie I. Carey Oscar Awards: […]

“The Louisiana Story,” documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty’s last feature, is one of his most beautifully shot work, a feature that earned him and his wife Frances an Oscar nomination for Motion Picture Story. Sponsored by Standard Oil, the film stirred controversy as critics saw it as a paean to the minimal effects oil company can […]

This was the first of three Disney animated features that composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman collaborated on; the other two were Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.