EP07 - "The Lawnmower Man" (1992) - CYBERPUNK Cinema Artwork

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EP07 - "The Lawnmower Man" (1992) - CYBERPUNK Cinema

March 15, 2022 • Anthony • Season 1 • Episode 7

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CYBERPUNK Cinema makes it's victorious return to Video Vagabond with the much maligned, often mocked, yet sometimes great and thought-provoking Brett Leonard Virtual-Frankenstein 1992 box office hit, "The Lawnmower Man"!

Three decades since its release, THE LAWNMOWER MAN is an enigma - it's as bad as you feared, but way better than you remembered. Pierce Brosnan stars as Dr. Lawrence Angelo, a scientist who is on the cutting-edge of a VR treatment that could revolutionize education. The terrific Jeff Fahey plays Jobe Smith, a mentally-disabled simpleton who mows lawns and takes care of a local church.

Jobe becomes Dr. Angelo's first human subject in the VR trials of Project-5, and Jobe becomes increasingly smarter and self-aware at an exponential rate. At first, it seems like a miracle, until Jobe starts unlocking ancient and arcane powers of extra-sensory-perception and starts developing a God-complex. It's up to Dr. Angelo to stop his creation before it destroys reality itself.

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