Electric Dreams

1984

Action / Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance / Sci-Fi

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 72% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 72% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 10924 10.9K

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Plot summary

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 Photo
Steve Barron

Top cast

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Don Fellows as Mr. Ryley
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Virginia Madsen as Madeline Robistat
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
787.58 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 8
1.44 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 33

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by nbutcher-69458 7 / 10

Silly and fun, but it hits different now

This is a fun, lighthearted movie about boy meets girl meets computer! Of course, the plot is a little cheesy and silly but none of that really matters when it's fun and takes us back to a simpler time. What makes it fun comes from the context of technology in the 1980s. Early home personal computers struggled with storage capacity and computing power to do little more than write a short letter and play primitive games, and their future role in the home was still being questioned.Watching this film these days is a little laughable and a bit unsettling because of how far the technology has come, and as such it hits a bit different. There's less suspension of belief now which actually makes it a bit more distracting from the main plot than a simple fairy-tale. It throws a lot of shade on the film that was not originally intended because of how much it predicted that it got right.We don't need to spill champagne on the circuit board to have a computer to perform a good facsimile of artificial sentience and intelligence when we have functioning chat bots using language learning models. And although there'd be huge network dropouts and long waiting times, our computers would not fry themselves trying to download the internet over a dial-up telephone modem! Leaving our computer on for hours hooked up to home automation isn't far fetched anymore either, and getting our news from the internet is commonplace - even if we don't need to make hardcopies of it! I just warn that you will have to suspend your thinking about the legal implications and health impacts of what damage that computer causes by the end of the film.The arc of the computer learning about love mirrors the protagonists journey in learning to love. To that end it succeeds and the ending pays off thematically as well, because that's what it was really aiming for.One thing I will say is that a fun film can never have too many montages, and Giorgio Moroder's end sequence music "Together in Electric Dreams" is a classic 80s hit that is still great even today.
Reviewed by FilmStalker 7 / 10

Don't upset your computer

This movie is rather funny and like some of the other viewers, the main song has stuck with me since the movie was first released. One point this movie tried to make is that there can never be enough montages. Without all the musical montages in this movie, the film would have lasted only thirty-minutes or so. Anyway, if your in the mood for a movie with a strange love triangle that doesn't involve questioning a characters sexuality, watch this.
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