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When Robbie Reimuller (Seth Adkins) is diagnosed as having epilepsy, his parents Lori (Streep) and Dave (Fred Ward) go along with the specialists' recommendations. But Dr. Abbasac (Allison Janney), a real Cruella DePill type, makes Robbie a tiny living lab for dubious experiments. Ann Beckett's bold teleplay charges doctors with being addicted to prescribing dangerous drugs to kids. The medical ordeal also acts as a mind-altering drug on Dave and Lori; it twists their love into rage and recrimination...
Every problem movie is really a solution movie; it must offer a cure at the end of the agony; parents may surrender to copelessness but never to hopelessness. So Lori hears of the Ketogenic Diet, a regimen that has quelled seizures in perhaps a third of the epileptic children who've tried it. Among the controversial diet's true believers are the film's director, Jim Abrahams (of the team that created the Airplane! and Naked Gun farces), and his son Charlie, 4, whose seizures ceased after he went on the diet and who plays a cameo role here...
...Still, Lori J. Park '96-'97, who was also a TF for CS-50 last semester, says being an undergraduate TF sometimes disrupted her life because students had fewer qualms about calling her at any hour than if she were a graduate student...
...government's star witness, McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, is not discussed in the brief. But sources tell TIME he will say that he accompanied McVeigh to case the Murrah building and that McVeigh told him he wanted to blow it up. Fortier's wife Lori, these sources say, will admit she helped McVeigh make the phony "Robert Kling" driver's license that McVeigh used to rent the Ryder truck...
...thought a road trip would be fun." said Lori A. Ricard...