Electric Dreams

Watch: Electric Dreams

7/20/19841h 36m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ The most unusual triangle in the history of love: a boy, a girl, and a computer. ~

Overview:

Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after having champagne spilled on it. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbor.

Director:

Steve Barron

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$2,193,612.00

Key words:

computer
architect
cello

Cast

Lenny Von Dohlen

~ as ~

Miles Harding

Virginia Madsen

~ as ~

Madeline Robistat

Maxwell Caulfield

~ as ~

Bill

Bud Cort

~ as ~

Edgar (voice)

Don Fellows

~ as ~

Mr. Ryley

Alan Polonsky

~ as ~

Frank

Wendy Miller

~ as ~

Computer Clerk

Harry Rabinowitz

~ as ~

Conductor

Miriam Margolyes

~ as ~

Ticket Girl

Holly De Jong

~ as ~

Ryley's Receptionist

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Reviews (1)

Wuchak
Written 1 week(s) ago
6
Romcom featuring Virginia Madsen and a sentient home computer

Shot in the fall of 1983, this is worthwhile to see Madsen in her winsome youth and to get a glimpse of what early home computers were like a dozen years before they were a common electronic appliance. Lenny von Dohlen works well as the Clark Kent-like protagonist.

You could say this is the fun, cute version of “Demon Seed” from seven years earlier. Of course, the idea of a sentient computer taking over the situation can be traced back to “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

It runs 1h 36m and was shot in San Francisco, except for Miles and Madeline's apartment scenes, which were shot in the studio in Twickenham, just southwest of London.

GRADE: B-