Films like Lorenzo's Oil
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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Dad
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Miracles from Heaven
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Extraordinary Measures
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The Emerald Forest
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John Q
Film · 2002 · also dramaJohn Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will n...
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The Judge
Film · 2014 · also dramaA successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
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The Glass Castle
Film · 2017 · also dramaA young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who dist...
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The Sunchaser
Film · 1996 · also dramaA young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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My Zoe
Film · 2019 · also dramaIsabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so whe...
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