The Lawnmower Man Page #5

Synopsis: A scientist performs experiments involving intelligence enhancing drugs and virtual reality on a simple-minded gardener. He puts the gardener on an extensive schedule of learning, and quickly he becomes brilliant. But at this point the gardener has a few ideas of his own on how the research should continue, and the scientist begins losing control of his experiments.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Brett Leonard
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
35%
R
Year:
1992
108 min
749 Views


It works

with a human subject, Timms.

It's incredible work, Larry.

So... what do you say?

I've gone as far

as I can in my lab at home.

I need access

to the main lab to go further.

There's no telling

how far I can take Jobe.

I can't do this

without your help.

What's it going to be,

Ms. Burke?

Would you check my fluids, Jake?

Do I know you?

I mow your lawn.

No. You're not

the Lawnmower Man.

Well... wow.

You've certainly changed.

I don't know how you did it,

but I approve.

Ms. Burke, I filled her up

with trans fluid.

No charge.

Thanks, Jake.

You're welcome.

Well, I'm looking forward

to having my lawn mowed...

soon.

She's got the hots

for you, Jobe boy.

You got to be kidding me.

She's just teasing

this half-wit.

Look at him. You got him

dressed up like a fool.

I've known her

ever since her husband died.

She's been kicking up her heels

with all the young studs.

And I tell you,

she wants this young fella.

Don't you call her no whore

around me, old man.

Whores do it for money.

She's got money. She's young.

She does it 'cause she likes it.

I told you to shut up.

Hey, Jake, don't do that.

OK, Lawnmower Man.

Dr. Angelo, I think people

can tell that...

that I'm changing.

Just don't draw attention

to yourself, OK?

Just keep doing

the lawn job for now.

It's not going to last forever.

I like doing the lawns.

That's good.

I always liked doing them.

That's good.

You're cleared. Go ahead.

Why is this place

so far from town?

The work here at VSI

is government classified.

Top Secret.

Good afternoon, Dr. Angelo.

Looks like a dungeon

in here, Dr. Angelo.

You see this, Jobe?

Holy moley!

Come on. It's OK.

Look.

This is some of the most

advanced computer equipment...

in the world, Jobe.

In these gyrospheres,

we wear full cybersuits...

which allow us to enter

into virtual reality and move.

Your entire nervous system

and endocrine system...

will be in sync

with the brain expansion.

Endocrine?

Endocrine:
it carries

secretions of certain glands...

like the thyroid, adrenal,

and pituitary...

which regulate growth.

Sometimes...

I think I've discovered

a new planet...

but one I'm inventing

instead of discovering.

I've just sighted the shore

of one of its continents.

Booting biology systems

readouts.

Bio-monitors on.

Choice.

Graph 5... engage.

Change brain wave parameters.

Brain wave pattern altered.

Prepare brain stem injection.

Initiate brain stem.

Insertion complete.

Let me off! Dr. Angelo!

Synaptic reaction positive.

My head, Dr. Angelo!

I like it!

Change brain wave parameters.

Initiate second level.

Insertion complete.

Lemonade.

Think he likes lemonade?

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Brett Leonard

Brett Leonard (born May 14, 1959) is an American film director, producer and music video director specializing in the science fiction and horror genres. A few of his films such as The Lawnmower Man (1992) and Virtuosity (1995) feature groundbreaking computer animation and visual effects. The Lawnmower Man is considered the first, seminal film to feature "virtual reality" as a cautionary tale becoming the number one commercially successful independent film of 1992, budgeted at just under $6 million and eventually earning over $150 million worldwide.Virtuosity became the first major film to feature nanotechnology set in a cyberpunk-based future with Brett Leonard casting Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington together, a full 12 years before they would again co-star in American Gangster. more…

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