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Release Date:
6 March 1992 (USA)
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Tagline:
God made him simple. Science made him a god.
Plot:
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
2 nominations
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(6 articles)
Excl: Jenny Wright Returns in Murder For Dummys
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'Near Dark' on Blu-Ray Nov 10th!
(From pretty-scary. 18 August 2009, 8:06 PM, PDT)
(From shocktillyoudrop. 30 September 2009)
'Near Dark' on Blu-Ray Nov 10th!
(From pretty-scary. 18 August 2009, 8:06 PM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeff Fahey | ... | Jobe Smith | |
| Pierce Brosnan | ... | Dr. Lawrence Angelo | |
| Jenny Wright | ... | Marnie Burke | |
| Mark Bringleson | ... | Sebastian Timms | |
| Geoffrey Lewis | ... | Terry McKeen | |
| Jeremy Slate | ... | Father Francis McKeen | |
| Dean Norris | ... | The Director | |
| Colleen Coffey | ... | Caroline Angelo | |
| Jim Landis | ... | Ed Walts | |
| Troy Evans | ... | Lieutenant Goodwin | |
| Rosalee Mayeux | ... | Carla Parkette | |
| Austin O'Brien | ... | Peter Parkette | |
| Michael Gregory | ... | Security Chief | |
| Joe Hart | ... | Patrolman Cooley | |
| John Laughlin | ... | Jake Simpson |
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Rated R for language, sensuality and a scene of violence.
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107 min | USA:140 min (director's cut)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:16 |
Netherlands:16 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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The shot of Dr. Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) releasing Jobe with a badly damaged head from the strobe was realized using a mannequin with a plaster head.
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Factual errors: Dr. Angelo, remarking on Jobe's progress with Latin, says that he himself took a year to learn just the Latin alphabet, which is still in use, plus a few letters, as the English alphabet. (In mitigation, he could be referring to the difficulty in reading ancient manuscripts, though this seems unlikely in context.)
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Jobe Smith:
...my birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Pierce Brosnan/Destiny's Child (#26.18)" (2001)
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Soundtrack:
State of Shock
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Last week I had occasion to see this movie again, and I was surprised that it wasn't as offensive as I remember. The Lawnmower man came out in 1992, the year before the Internet hit the big time. Now that these 'VR futurists' have been shown wrong (and you can tell from the interviews that they were serious), one can watch it as a fantasy, rather than science fiction. In this respect it holds up: the computer graphics are beautiful, if a little dated, and a couple of restored scenes (in the director's cut or the DVD) make the story more compelling. Perhaps VR will deliver on its promises someday; meanwhile, there's a fairly good story here.
p.s. Stay far away from the sequel. It was just plain bad.