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The Lawnmower Man (film) - Wikipedia. The Lawnmower Man is a 1. American science fictionactionhorror film directed by Brett Leonard and written by Brett Leonard and Gimel Everett. The film is named after a Stephen King short story of the same name; but, aside from a single scene, the stories are unrelated. The film stars Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, a simple- minded gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr.
Lawrence Angelo, the scientist who decides to experiment on him. The film was originally titled Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man, but King successfully sued the producers for attaching his name to the film and stated in court documents that the film . It was directed by Jim Gonis in 1. Lawrence Angelo works for Virtual Space Industries, running experiments in increasing the intelligence of chimpanzees using drugs and virtual reality. One of the chimps escapes using the warfare tactics he was being trained for.
Angelo is generally a pacifist, who would rather explore the intelligence- enhancing potential of his research without applying it for military purposes. His wife Caroline is unhappy with the way he is ignoring her to focus on this project.
Jobe Smith, a local greenskeeper with an intellectual disability, lives in the garden shed owned by the local priest, Father Francis Mc. Keen. Mc. Keen's brother, Terry, is a local landscape gardener and employs Jobe to help him with odd jobs. Father Mc. Keen punishes the challenged Jobe with a belt whenever he fails to complete his chores. Dr. Angelo realizes he needs a human subject to work with, and he spots Jobe mowing his lawn. Angelo's young neighbor, is friends with Jobe. Angelo invites both of them over to play some virtual reality games. Learning more about Jobe, Angelo persuades him to participate in his experiments, letting him know it will make him smarter.
Jobe agrees and begins the program. Angelo makes it a point to redesign all the intelligence- boosting treatments without the .
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Meanwhile, Jobe also begins a sexual relationship with a young rich widow, Marnie. However, Jobe begins to display telepathic abilities and has hallucinations. He continues training at the lab, until an accident makes Dr. Angelo shut the program down. The project director, Sebastian Timms, employed by a mysterious agency known as The Shop, keeps tabs on the progress of the experiment, and discreetly swaps Dr. Angelo's new medications with the old Project 5 supply (reintroducing the .
Something goes wrong in the simulation when Jobe's virtual avatar becomes violent, attacking her mind directly; Marnie is driven insane, laughing endlessly at nothing. Jobe's powers continue to grow, but the treatments are also affecting his mental stability, and he decides to exact revenge on those who abused him when he was . Jobe uses his telepathic abilities to make the investigating police attribute it all to . Angelo. Jobe believes his final stage of evolution is to become . The Shop sends a team to capture Jobe, but they are ineffective against his abilities and he scatters their molecules.
Jobe mentally possesses Caroline and has her shoot the police. Caroline winds up getting killed herself. Jobe uses the lab equipment to enter the mainframe computer, abandoning his body to become a wholly virtual being, leaving his body behind like a husk. Dr. Angelo remotely infects the VSI computer, encrypting all of the links to the outside world, trapping Jobe in the mainframe.
As Jobe searches for an unencrypted network connection, Dr. Angelo primes bombs to destroy the building. Feeling responsible for what has happened to Jobe, Angelo then joins him in virtual reality to try to reason with him. Jobe overpowers and crucifies him, then continues to search for a network connection. Peter runs into the building; Jobe still cares for him and allows Dr. Angelo to go free in order to rescue Peter.
Jobe forces a computer- connected lock to open, allowing Peter and Dr. Jobe escapes through a back door before the building is destroyed in multiple explosions. Back at home with Peter, Dr. Angelo and Peter's mother Carla (who has become a romantic interest) are about to leave when their telephone rings, followed by the noise of a second, and then hundreds of telephones ring, all around the globe.
Production. The serviceman who arrives to do the job has a lawnmower that mows the lawn by itself while he crawls, naked, behind the mower, eating the grass. The serviceman himself is actually a satyr who worships the Greek god Pan. When Parkette tries to call the police, the mower and its owner ritually kill him as a sacrifice to Pan.
The film's original script, written by director Brett Leonard and producer Gimel Everett, was titled Cyber God and had nothing to do with King's short story. New Line Cinema held the film rights to King's story, and decided to combine Cyber God with some minor elements of King's . The resulting film, originally titled Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man, differed so much from the source material that King sued the filmmakers to remove his name from the title.
After two court rulings in King's favor, New Line still did not comply and initially released the home video version as Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man. A third ruling granted the author $1. The Lawnmower Man was released in Japan under the title Virtual Wars; Fuji Creative's Masao Takiyama is also credited as a co- producer.
References to the short story include the scene where Jobe kills Peter's father with the lawnmower . The supervising sound editor was Frank Serafine, who was hired as a result of his sound creation work in the 1. Tron. Some of the computer- generated scenes were used in Beyond the Mind's Eye, a video in the Mind's Eye series. Reception. It currently holds a 3. Rotten Tomatoes based on 3.
It was retitled Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War for its video release. The film received negative reviews from critics and fans of the first movie.
This film had spawned two video games, The Lawnmower Man in 1. Cyberwar in 1. 99. Comic book writer Grant Morrison said in an interview. Morrison claims he was asked to .
It was the success of the unrated version that alerted King to New Line's continued defiance of the order that his name be stricken from the film's credits and all marketing for it. It would take a third court order to force the studio's compliance. As before, the court upheld the two prior judgments, but it took the extra step of imposing a penalty of $1. King for every day New Line remained in contempt by defying the order. Additionally, the studio would have to forfeit all profits earned on the film during that same period.
The DVD, released in December 1. DVD as merely deleted scenes. The director's cut was released on DVD with the inclusion of the sequel Lawnmower Man 2 on October 2. United Kingdom. Creepshows: the Illustrated Stephen King Movie Guide, Titan Books, 2. F3/6. 5/6. 5. F3d. The Los Angeles Times.
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