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The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard, written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, and starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, an intellectually disabled gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Angelo, a scientist who decides to experiment on him in an effort to give him greater intelligence.
- $10 million
- Dan Wyman
- March 6, 1992
Mar 6, 1992 · A scientist turns a simple-minded gardener into a genius with virtual reality and drugs, but loses control of his experiments. IMDb provides cast and crew, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this Stephen King adaptation.
- Brett Leonard
- 157
- 2 min
A feature film, The Lawnmower Man, starring Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan, was released in 1992 by New Line Cinema. This film used an original screenplay entitled "CyberGod", borrowing only the title of the short story. The film concerns a scientist, Dr. Lawrence Angelo (Brosnan), who subjects mentally challenged Jobe Smith (Fahey) to virtual ...
- United States
- English
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A scientist enhances the intelligence of a mentally disabled gardener with virtual reality and drugs, but loses control of his experiment. The gardener becomes a genius and a villain, and the scientist tries to stop him from taking over the world.
A mentally disabled man becomes a psychic killer after a scientist's experiment with virtual reality. See the cast, crew, reviews, ratings, and where to watch this 1992 film based on a Stephen King story.
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Feb 20, 2024 · The Lawnmower Man is a 1992 film that explores the power and peril of virtual reality, based on a Stephen King short story. Inverse interviews the director and others who made the movie, and how it foreshadowed the metaverse era.
