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Overview

User Rating:
6.0/10   2,568 votes
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Director:
Steve Barron
Writer:
Rusty Lemorande (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
20 July 1984 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Meet Edgar. He'll make you sing, make you dance, make you laugh, make you cry, make you jealous, make you nuts. more
Plot:
An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Absolutely Unbelievable. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Lenny von Dohlen ... Miles Harding

Virginia Madsen ... Madeline Robistat

Maxwell Caulfield ... Bill

Bud Cort ... Edgar (voice)
Don Fellows ... Mr. Ryley
Alan Polonsky ... Frank, Co-Worker
Wendy Miller ... Computer Clerk
Harry Rabinowitz ... Conductor

Miriam Margolyes ... Ticket Girl
Holly De Jong ... Ryley's Receptionist
Stella Maris ... Woman at Airport
Mary Doran ... Millie
Diana Choy ... Check-Out Girl
Jim Steck ... Removal Man
Gary Pettinger ... Removal Man
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Additional Details

Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA | UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Iceland:L | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:S | Sweden:7 | USA:PG | Australia:G
Company:
Virgin more

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Trivia:
The cello piece played by Madeline in the song "The Duel" is the Minuet #4 in G (BWV Anh.II.114) from "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach" by Christian Petzold (formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach). more
Goofs:
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Miles tells Edgar that the phrase "A dream is a wish your heart makes" comes from Sleeping Beauty (1959), and starts to say the date as "nineteen sixty..." Edgar corrects him and says it's from Cinderella (1950), but states the date as 1949. (It's understandable that Miles gets both the movie and the year wrong, but it's less likely for a computer, unless Edgar is going by copyright date rather than release date.) more
Quotes:
Lillian Roth as Trixie in Madam Satan: I'll show ya some *real* brimstone.
Edgar: Yeah!
Lillian Roth as Trixie in Madam Satan: Orchestra, play Low Down, and make it *hot*!
Edgar: All right. I am. Get down on it.
[Edgar plays Jeff Lynne's "Let It Run" on the turntable and projects images from Madam Satan around Miles' apartment]
Edgar: Yeah. It's *my* party.
Edgar: [singsong] And Moles, you're not invited.
Edgar: All right!
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Movie Connections:
Features The Love Bug (1968) more
Soundtrack:
Let It Run more

FAQ

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24 out of 27 people found the following comment useful:-
Absolutely Unbelievable., 11 June 2000
Author: OneDones from Evanston, Illinois

There is nothing on this earth that pleases me more than something that is so bad that it's good...so how happy did "Electric Dreams" make me?

Well, let me simply say that I would describe the experience of watching it as "orgasmic."

From the spilled champagne creating life, to the romantic tryst at Alcatraz...from Virginia Madsen's single tear teaching the computer how to love, to the computer's last suicidal moments when he introduces himself as Edgar (Edgar?!?)...from the incoherence of the plot, to its complete and utter disregard for logic...ohhh, and most incredibly of all...the voice of Bud Cort as Edgar...why has no one else mentioned that this is one of most amazingly terrifying and campy pieces of voice-over work EVER???

I can't even begin to list all of the amazingly cheesy, campy, and/or crappy elements that added up to what is one of the most insane and wonderful films I have ever seen. After only one viewing, this has definitely become one of my all-time favorites...love IS love, and I'll always be together -- together in electric dreams.

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