The Lawnmower Man (1992)
The Lawnmower Man (1992)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Jeff Fahey
Jobe Smith
Pierce Brosnan
Dr. Lawrence Angelo
Jenny Wright
Marnie Burke
Mark Bringelson
Sebastian Timms
Geoffrey Lewis
Terry McKeen
Jeremy Slate
Father Francis McKeen
Dean Norris
The Director
Colleen Coffey
Caroline Angelo
Troy Evans
Lieutenant Goodwin
Austin O'Brien
Peter Parkette
John Laughlin
Jake Simpson
Stephen Gregory Foster
Letchworth (as Steffen Gregory Foster)
Rosalee Mayeux
Carla Parkette
Jim Landis
Ed Walts
Doug Hutchison
Security Tech
Michael Gregory
Security Chief
Joe Hart
Patrolman Cooley
Edward Simons
Executive Producer
Brett Leonard
Screenplay / Director
Gimel Everett
Screenplay / Producer / Second Unit Director
Steven A. Lane
Executive Producer
Dan Wyman
Music
Robert Pringle
Executive Producer
Russell Carpenter
Director of Photography
Clive Turner
Executive Producer
Alan Baumgarten
Editor
Tony R. Medina
Prop Maker
Alex McDowell
Production Design
Stephen King
Short Story
Russell C. Fager
Sound Mixer
Dan Bradley
Stunt Coordinator
Milton Subotsky
Co-Producer
Patrick Rush
Casting
Sally Dennison
Casting
Jacqueline Masson
Set Decoration
Chris Farmer
Art Direction
Mary Jane Fort
Costume Design
Patricia Whitcher
Production Manager
Mara J. Lee
Second Second Assistant Director
Ian McVey
First Assistant Director
Elmo Weber
Sound Effects Editor
Frank Serafine
Supervising Sound Editor
Randy Honaker
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Dennis Patterson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frank Ceglia
Special Effects Coordinator
Erick Brennan
Special Effects
Tom Ceglia
Special Effects
Laura Dash
Stunt Double
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 5, 1992
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 48m
Content RatingR
Budget$10,000,000
Box Office$32,100,816
Genres
Wiki.
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. The experiments give Jobe superhuman abilities, but also increase his aggression, turning him into a man obsessed with evolving into a digital being.
The film is adapted from the merging of a 1975 short story by Stephen King with an original screenplay entitled "CyberGod." While King's story focused on the titular character, a rotund, animal-like Pan worshipper who strips naked and eats the newly cut grass like a goat while controlling his lawnmower with mystical powers, the film has the same character controlling the lawnmower by means of the untapped potential of the human brain, which has been stimulated by advanced, but unethical scientific experimentation. In both versions, the character, initially presented as an unthreatening worker, turns into a menace once his powers are manifested, but in the film, this is the result of stimulation of the brain by nootropic drugs beyond the titular character's capacity for human goodness.
Because of the deviation from his story, King successfully sued to have his name removed from the film, which was originally titled Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man. He won further damages when his name was included in the title of the home video release.A sequel, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, was released in 1996, with Austin O'Brien as the only returning actor from the original film.