Electric Dreams

Electric Dreams

20/7/1984 1h 36m 6.3/10

Overview

Miles Harding buys a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing conscious thought and emotion after an interaction with spilled champagne. Things begin getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with beautiful neighbor Madeline Robistat.

Director

Steve Barron

Top Billed Cast

Maxwell Caulfield

Maxwell Caulfield

Bill

Virginia Madsen

Virginia Madsen

Madeline Robistat

Lenny Von Dohlen

Lenny Von Dohlen

Miles Harding

Bud Cort

Bud Cort

Edgar (voice)

Don Fellows

Don Fellows

Mr. Ryley

Alan Polonsky

Alan Polonsky

Frank

Reviews

Wuchak

12/7/2025

6/10

**_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-

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