The Lawnmower Man (1992) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for language, sensuality and a scene of violence
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • We hear the Priest performed acts of molestation.
  • While being in a computer simulation, a man attempts to rape a woman.
  • 2 sex scenes involving lead character, on both occasions breasts and a bare buttocks are shown.

Violence & Gore

  • Towards the finale a security guard shoots himself in the head, this is the only scene that could be considered as graphic.
  • A man turns into a swirl of pixels.
  • A chimp escapes from a laboratory, he steals a guards gun and shoots him in the head. The guards death is seen through heat vision.
  • A man gets shot to death by a security guard.

Profanity

  • 18 uses of fuck in the extended cut
  • Many uses of the f-word, similar number of s-words.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some drinking and smoking of cigarettes.
  • Lead character is shown being (clinically) injected on several occasions.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Mostly computer simulation during which the experiences become gradually uneasing as the movie and the plot progress.
  • Background settings in general which are mostly in near or complete darkness (such as basement and science lab scenes) could be considered unsettling for some viewers.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • Jobe kills the priest by setting him on fire with digital flames.
  • A man is killed by a lawnmower (offscreen).
  • Jobe makes Jake brain dead after projecting thoughts of Cyberjobe's disembodied head with a lawnmower for a mouth mowing jake's brain into his brain
  • Lead character breaks into a man's house threatening him with a lawnmower

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • On one occasion towards the end of the movie lead character injects himself many times in one instance. He then uses virtual reality to become smarter.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Lead character breaks into a man's house threatening him with a lawnmower
  • Lead character uses powers to threaten another man at a gas station
  • Pierce Brosnan's character is required to escape from an exploding building at the climax of the movie

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