Electric Dreams

“Meet Edgar. He'll make you sing, make you dance, make you laugh, make you cry, make you jealous, make you nuts.”

6.3(202)19841h 36m

RomanceScience FictionComedy

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

Budget

$5.5M

Revenue

$2.2M

Cast

Lenny Von Dohlen

Miles Harding

Virginia Madsen

Madeline Robistat

Maxwell Caulfield

Bill

Bud Cort

Edgar (voice)

Don Fellows

Mr. Ryley

Alan Polonsky

Frank

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

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Reviews

1 review

Wuchak

7mo ago

6.0

**_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”...