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| Learning Difficulties (Mental Retardation): Minor Films no photo.
| Title | Lawnmower Man, The (1992) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | Learning Difficulty | | Country | USA | | Length | 105 | | Genre | Sci-Fi | | Rating | 1 | | Director | Brett Leonard
| | Cast | Pierce Brosnan Jeff Fahey Jenny Wright Mark Bringleson
| | Notes | More bad science and scientists. A gardener with learning difficulties becomes a subject for experiment which will increase his I.Q. Not recommended for those who have a high I.Q.. Fahey just isn't up to giving any kind of credibility to this part. The film repeats the fallacy that you can learn a 'trade' by reading books. In Fahey's case it's score of CD-Roms which he absorbs. A step further than Travolta's "Phenonemon" (1996) who flicks through medical books . There was the idea years ago that if you played cassettes of fiction, science etc. next to the pillow of someone asleep they might learn more. That seems to have slipped away. But films just love this super-heated learning. Learning is active not passive. From a short story by Stephen King.
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