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The Lawnmower Man ()

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A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
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Jobe Smith
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Lawrence Angelo
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Marnie Burke
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Sebastian Timms
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Terry McKeen
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Father McKeen
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Director
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Caroline Angelo
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Lt. Goodwin
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Carla Parkette
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Peter Parkette
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Security Chief
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Patrolman Cooley
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Jake Simpson
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Harold Parkette
Jim Landis ...
Ed Walts
Michael Valverde ...
Day Gate Guard (as Mike Valverde)
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Dolly
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Night Gate Guard
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Assistant (as Jonathan Smart)
Stephen Gregory Foster ...
Letchworth (as Steffen Gregory Foster)
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Security Tech
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Skinhead Guard
Roger Rook ...
Older Guard
Craig Benton ...
White Coat
Randall Fontana ...
Hotel Waiter
Mara Duronslet ...
Young Woman Clerk
Duane Byrne ...
Letchworth Buddy
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bruce Holman ...
Crime Scene Detective (uncredited)
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Guard - Struggle with Dr. Angelo (uncredited)

Directed by

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Brett Leonard

Written by

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Stephen King ... (based on a short story by) (credit removed following lawsuit)
 
Brett Leonard ... (screenplay by) &
Gimel Everett ... (screenplay by)

Produced by

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Gimel Everett ... producer (produced by)
Steven A. Lane ... executive producer (as Steve Lane)
Peter A. McRae ... associate producer
Robert Pringle ... executive producer
Edward Simons ... executive producer
Milton Subotsky ... co-producer
Masao Takiyama ... associate producer
Clive Turner ... executive producer

Music by

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Dan Wyman

Cinematography by

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Russell Carpenter

Editing by

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Alan Baumgarten

Editorial Department

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Elizabeth Castro ... first assistant editor
Lisa Cholodenko ... assistant editor
Cindy Parisotto ... assistant editor
Kevin D. Ross ... associate editor
Joe Fineman ... post-production consultant (uncredited)

Casting By

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Sally Dennison
Patrick Rush

Production Design by

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Alex McDowell

Art Direction by

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Chris Farmer

Set Decoration by

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Jacqueline Masson

Costume Design by

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Mary Jane Fort

Makeup Department

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Heidi Williams ... assistant makeup artist

Production Management

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Lisa Cochran-Neilan ... unit production manager: second unit
Brian Rogers ... production manager: Project Development
Patricia Whitcher ... production manager (as Patty Whitcher)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Gimel Everett ... second unit director
Sarah Johnstone ... second assistant director (as Sarah Nugent Johnstone)
Mara J. Lee ... second second assistant director
Ian McVey ... first assistant director
John Scherer ... first assistant director: second unit

Art Department

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Jeff Balsmeyer ... storyboard artist
Tony Chaney ... property maker
Wayne Daddio ... scenic artist
Stewart Dickson ... props
Andrea Dopaso ... set designer
Dragon Dronet ... weapons and props
Michael Grover Forster ... construction foreman (as Michael 'Grover' Forster)
Riley 'Sean' Jones ... on-set dresser
Steve La Ponsie ... scenic artist
Jeffrey A. Leake ... construction leadman (as Jeff 'Quiet Man' Leake)
John Marshall ... props
Tony R. Medina ... prop maker
Rosalyn Myles ... set dresser
Tim Price ... assistant set decorator
Eric Ramsey ... storyboard artist
Chris Santini ... carpenter
R. Vincent Smith ... assistant property master
Steven Suchman ... assistant art director
Jon Tucker ... swing gang
Brook Yeaton ... property master
Paul Vincent Fusco ... props (uncredited)
Michael W. Moore ... prop maker (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Russell C. Fager ... sound mixer
Randy Honaker ... re-recording mixer
Dennis Patterson ... re-recording mixer
Phillip Raves ... adr editor
Frank Serafine ... supervising sound editor
Elmo Weber ... digital sound effects editor

Special Effects by

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Greg Aronowitz ... fabricator
Erick Brennan ... special effects supervisor
Frank Ceglia ... special effects coordinator
Tom Ceglia ... special effects
Brian Christensen ... special effects
Charles Cooley ... special effects technician
Michael Deak ... special effects assistant
Gabreal Franklin ... special effects crew
Paul Haines ... special effects

Visual Effects by

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John Adamczyk ... technical director: Homer and Associates
Roberta Brandao ... animator: Xaos / designer: Xaos
Francesco Chiarini ... motion capture: Homer and Associates
Gimel Everett ... special visual effects conceived and supervised by
Mikel Evins ... animator: The Lawnmower Man Macintosh Development Team, Bay Area
Alex Funke ... bluescreen director of photography
Michael Gosney ... creative director: The Gosney Company
Jeff Hayes ... animator: Angel Studios / modeller: Angel Studios
Brad Hunt ... simulation director: Angel Studios
Jill Hunt ... animation director: Angel Studios
Jonathan Keeton ... director of visual effects: Western Images
Michael Kory ... fire man graphics
Hayden Landis ... animator: Xaos / designer: Xaos
Umberto Lazzari ... motion capture: Homer and Associates
Brett Leonard ... special visual effects conceived and supervised by
Paul Lewis ... digital effects artist
Michael Limber ... animation director: Angel Studios
Tony Lupidi ... animator: Xaos / designer: Xaos
Matthew Maclaurin ... project design leader: The Lawnmower Man Macintosh Development Team, Bay Area
Rodd Matsui ... stop-motion animator
Ken Pearce ... animator: Xaos / designer: Xaos
Henry Preston ... animator: Xaos / designer: Xaos
Drex Reed ... visual effects crew
Jimi Simmons ... harry artist: Western Images
Mark Smith-Arcarese ... animator: The Lawnmower Man Macintosh Development Team, Bay Area
David C. Traub ... producer: Centerpoint Communications Group
David Stipes ... visual effects: David Stipes Productions (uncredited)

Stunts

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Dan Bradley ... stunt coordinator
Bobby Burns ... stunts
Laura Dash ... stunt double
Brett A. Jones ... stunts
Ray Lykins ... stunts

Camera and Electrical Department

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Kirk Bloom ... additional second assistant camera
Marty Collins ... photographer: second unit
Doug Dole ... grip
Anthony Doublin ... minature photographer
Wes Houle ... rigging gaffer
Jeffrey A. Johnson ... grip
Douglas Kirkland ... still photographer
David R. Kohn ... best boy
Vojislav Mikulic ... gaffer
Lloyd Moriarity ... key grip
Mike 'Chewie' Pappas ... electrician
Donna Willinsky ... still photographer

Casting Department

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Cheryl Faye ... extras casting
Patricia Troy ... casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Dorothy Bulac ... specialty costumes
Leticia Sandoval ... specialty costumes

Music Department

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Jürgen Bräuninger ... orchestrator (as Jurgen Brauninger) / score realization (as Jurgen Brauninger)

Script and Continuity Department

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Katalin Rogers ... script supervisor (as Katalin Kovacs Rogers)

Transportation Department

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Jody Bingenheimer ... driver
Bruce Comtois ... unit driver
Geno Hart ... transportation coordinator
Mike Painter ... transportation

Additional Crew

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Bundy Chanock ... set medic
Steven A. Hite ... Photo Double: Pierce Brosnan
Michael Larsen ... production assistant
Simon McGuire ... visual consultant
Brian McMillan ... animal trainer
Vikki McMillan ... animal trainer
Dana Ostrow ... production assistant
Ginny Rankin ... assistant: Mr. Fahey
Jewels Satterfield ... production assistant
Brad Stephens ... publicist
Rachel L. Sterns ... production assistant
Alex L. Worman ... publicity team

Thanks

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Brian Rogers ... special thanks

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

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. Written by Ed Sutton

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Taglines God made him simple. Science made him a god. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Virtual Wars (Japan, English title)
  • バーチャル・ウォーズ (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man (United States)
  • The Lawnmower Man: Theatrical Cut (United States)
  • The Lawnmower Man: Director's Cut (United States)
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Runtime
  • 108 min
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Box Office

Budget $10,000,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $150,000,000

Did You Know?

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Trivia New Line Cinema had obtained the rights to the Stephen King short story "The Lawnmower Man", and the producers also had an unrelated script called "Cyber God". For economical reasons, they simply placed King's title on the production of "Cyber God", and early promotional material with that claim even went public. King was furious at this abuse of his name, and he sued the studio to have his name and title removed from the film and promotion. The studio refused, but was eventually ordered to pay ten thousand dollars and full profits to King. See more »
Goofs Twice in the movie, the scenes at the cafe are identical. Both show the same girl sitting at the counter and the waitress has just finished serving the same couple. That scene is first used earlier in the movie before Jobe and Terry enter the cafe. Later the same scene is used again just before Jobe goes into the cafe with Peter. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Beyond the Mind's Eye (1992). See more »
Soundtracks Jobe's Fury See more »
Crazy Credits At the start of the movie, just after the New Line Cinema logo, the following Virtual Reality 'statement' is given (the director stated that this was rewritten many times): By the turn of the millenium a technology known as VIRTUAL REALITY will be in widespread use. It will allow you to enter computer generated artificial worlds as unlimited as the imagination itself. Its creators foresee millions of positive uses - while others fear it as a new from of mind control... See more »
Quotes Dr. Lawrence Angelo: This is all so new.
Jobe Smith: It's not new. I realized that nothing we've been doing is new. We haven't been tapping into new areas of the brain - we've just been awakening the most ancient. This technology is simply a route to powers that conjurers and alchemists used centuries ago. The human race lost that knowledge and now I'm reclaiming it through virtual reality.
Dr. Lawrence Angelo: You're moving too fast. Even with all these new abilities, there are dangers. Man may be able to evolve a thousand-fold through this technology, but the rush must be tempered with wisdom.
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