Il tagliaerbe

Titolo originale: The Lawnmower Man

1992
T
1h 48min

VALUTAZIONE IMDb

5,4/10

40.198

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

POPOLARITÀ

4.635

1.500

Home Video Trailer from New Line Home Entertainment

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Cyberpunk Tragedy Horror Sci-Fi

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

5,4/10

40.198

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

POPOLARITÀ

4.635

1.500

Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro

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The Lawnmower man

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The Lawnmower Man: Jobe Attacks

Featurette 2:09

The Lawnmower Man: Cast & Crew On The Virtual Reality World

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La creatura del cimitero

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Brivido

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Fenomeni paranormali incontrollabili

6,3

L'occhio del gatto

6,2

I delitti del gatto nero

6,3

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Quiz
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.

Blooper
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.

Citazioni
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.

Curiosità sui crediti
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...

Versioni alternative
A director's cut was released with 39 minutes of additional footage which included the following material:
When Rosco 1138 was shot in the theatrical version he died, but in the directors cut he survived
A scene when Jobe Smith is attacked by Rosco 1138, but Rosco looks at his pupils and sees he is not a threat
Dr. Angelo gives some soldiers a briefing on capturing Rosco
Jobe speaks to Rosco thinking he is a comic book super hero called Cyboman
Father McKeen finds Rosco with Jobe and calls V.S.I., Dr. Angelo's place of work
The soldiers go to Jobe's house and Dr. Angelo wants to get Rosco alive, but the soldiers kill Rosco and Jobe starts to cry
Father McKeen talks to Jobe and tells him how he endangered the church by letting Rosco in his house
Jobe and Terry McKeen are at the gas station and Jobe tells Terry and Jake about Cyboman and Jake makes fun of him
Dr. Angelo talks into his audio journal and wonders why Rosco bonded with the retarded man Jobe
In the theatrical version Dr. Angelo's wife leaves him, but in the director's cut she goes out with her friends. Dr. Angelo follows her to her car and she leaves; then he talks to Peter's mom [Carla Parkett] and they talk about how Peter reminds him of himself at that age
Terry McKeen and Jobe are in a diner and Jake starts harassing him about Cyboman
Father McKeen sees Jobe reading and yells at him and Terry defends him and tells Father McKeen to let Jobe be a man. Then Father McKeen leaves and tells Jobe he'll teach him to drive, but he learnt how already with the V.R. treatments he has been getting from Dr. Angelo
Jobe is with Dr. Angelo on the way to V.S.I. and asks if he is going to do to him what he did with Rosco
Jobe is scared because he can read minds; he asks Mrs. Angelo where Dr. Angelo is and he reads her mind
Dr. Angelo asks his wife where Jobe is and she does not respond because she is under Jobe's control
Dr. Angelo is tied up and his wife asks if he and Jobe need anything, still being under his control
The agents are going to pick up Jobe and Dr. Angelo when Jobe tells Dr. Angelo "Now you will witness the impossible" and makes Dr. Angelo watch his wife kill an agent and then is killed by the other two while he watches through V.R.

Connessioni
Edited into Beyond the Mind's Eye (1992)

Colonne sonore
Jobe's Fury
Written and Performed by Sterling

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8/10

Don't bother with the theatrical version

For the longest time, I only ever saw the director's cut of this movie. It's no masterpiece or anything, but it's a good, well-told modern-day Frankenstein story. It has a slow build-up, with solid character building that creates an emotional core we can connect with.

I was APPALLED when I finally saw the theatrical version. It's a total trash fire. Everything that made the director's cut good, all the thoughtfulness and care, all the dramatic and sci-fi elements I like about this movie, are sucked out, leaving a lobotomized, hollow, nonsensical shadow of a story upon which to hang some early '90s special effects. Characters' motivations disappear and we're left with nothing of any substance. I hate the fact that it exists.

Get the director's cut (or "Collector's Edition"), which is about 140 minutes long. Accept no substitutes!