Thursday, 30 October 2025

783 The Lawnmower Man (1992)

 This sci-fi horror film was very loosely ( so loose he sued to dissociate himself from it ) based on a Stephen King short story. Pierce Brosnan plays Dr Angelo, a driven scientist working in  Virtual Reality for a shady corporation. When he loses his subject chimp, he enlists Jobe ( Jeff Fahey ) a retarded gardener for his experiments. Jobe soon  attains normalcy but then develops much further than intended. The plot  has more in common with the Oscar-winning Charly from 1968 than the source material and  though the effects  inevitably look dated it's still an absorbing story, the last  half  hour being an edge of the seat thrill ride.

Jenny Wright (as Margie )

Sex : Margie has sex with Jobe

Death : Survives but brain-damaged 


Jenny was a former model from New York who first appeared on TV  in 1981. She made her film debut the following year in Pink Floyd :The Wall. A  small  part in St Elmo's Fire put her on the fringe of the Brat Pack and she dated Nicolas Cage for a time. This was her  final film role and she dropped out of the public eye after a couple more TV appearances

Colleen Coffey ( as Caroline Angelo)

Sex : Caroline comes onto her husband but he's not interested

Death : Survives


This  was Colleen's first film role after a smattering of TV appearances. She remained a bit  part actress before retiring into family life after 1997.

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