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Electric Dreams
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Electric Dreams

Meet Edgar. He'll make you sing, make you dance, make you laugh, make you cry, make you jealous, make you nuts.
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User Score201 ratings
TMDB 6.316+19841h 36mEnglish
RomanceScience FictionComedy

Synopsis

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 BarronFrom TMDB credits
Studio
Virgin Vision1 production companies
Release
July 20, 1984Released
Box Office
$2MBudget $6M

Top Cast

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Lenny Von Dohlen
Lenny Von Dohlen
Miles Harding
Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen
Madeline Robistat
Maxwell Caulfield
Maxwell Caulfield
Bill
Bud Cort
Bud Cort
Edgar (voice)
Don Fellows
Don Fellows
Mr. Ryley
Alan Polonsky
Alan Polonsky
Frank
Wendy Miller
Computer Clerk
Harry Rabinowitz
Harry Rabinowitz
Conductor

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Reviews

From TMDB users
Wuchak
Dec 7, 2025

**_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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