This was THE film of 1992. Everybody was waiting for it and it's ground breaking special effects made it a huge success on the back of the then popular and now uninteresting Virtual Reality.
Plot: A scientific chap, Dr Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) works with Virtual Reality (as far as I can tell, the only real similarity to the original Stephen King short story is the use of 'the shop' as the ominous government agency-also used in Firestarter) and is endeavouring to increase mental capacity and use in the wearers. To that end, he decides to experiment on the mentally handicapped man who mows his lawn, Jobe (Jeff Fahey). No problem at first, everybody's havin' a laugh, then he starts to get smart, fast. He also starts wearing very tight jeans and showing his ass to a young, pervy lady.
So, Jobe gets too smart, the shop get wary and Dr Angelo tries to blow the place up.
It's great to see the VR again.
Budget: $10,000,000
Gross: $32,100,816
Fun Fact: The sequel- The Lawnmower Man 2-Beyond Cyberspace was released in 1996 and starred (Matt Frewer-Eureka) as Jobe. Comic writer Grant Morrison was originally asked to pen the sequel and a follow up too, but he didn't.
Plot: A scientific chap, Dr Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) works with Virtual Reality (as far as I can tell, the only real similarity to the original Stephen King short story is the use of 'the shop' as the ominous government agency-also used in Firestarter) and is endeavouring to increase mental capacity and use in the wearers. To that end, he decides to experiment on the mentally handicapped man who mows his lawn, Jobe (Jeff Fahey). No problem at first, everybody's havin' a laugh, then he starts to get smart, fast. He also starts wearing very tight jeans and showing his ass to a young, pervy lady.
So, Jobe gets too smart, the shop get wary and Dr Angelo tries to blow the place up.
It's great to see the VR again.
Budget: $10,000,000
Gross: $32,100,816
Fun Fact: The sequel- The Lawnmower Man 2-Beyond Cyberspace was released in 1996 and starred (Matt Frewer-Eureka) as Jobe. Comic writer Grant Morrison was originally asked to pen the sequel and a follow up too, but he didn't.
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