Synopsis
Miles buys himself a state-of-the-art computer that starts expressing thoughts and emotions after a having champagne spilled on him. Things start getting out of hand when both Miles and Edgar, the computer, fall in love with Madeline, an attractive neighbour.
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Cast
- Lenny Von DohlenMiles
- Virginia MadsenMadeline
- Maxwell CaulfieldBill
- Bud CortEdgar (voice)
- Don FellowsRyley
- Alan PolonskyFrank
- Wendy MillerComputer Clerk
- Harry RabinowitzConductor
- Miriam MargolyesTicket Girl
- Holly De JongRyley's Receptionist
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the nicest things about the movie is the way it maintains its note of slightly bewildered innocence. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
The story gets silly from time to time, stretching credibility to the breaking point, but the final result is an old-fashioned love triangle made new by the third party's being electronic. - 75
The A.V. Club
For all the liberties it takes with what the computers of that era could really do, Electric Dreams offers a portrait of our relationship to technology that’s fairly prescient—while still being silly in that early-’80s Radio Shack kind of way, of course. - 63
Washington Post
Electric Dreams can be trusted to provide some idle amusement, particularly from "users" cautious enough to keep both their demands and levels of resistance set at low-to-modest -- probably the ideal setting for summer moviegoing in general, come to think of it. - 60
Los Angeles Times
Unfortunately, Electric Dreams has another thing in common with most rock videos: It’s strong on music and visual effects, while somewhat lacking in story development. - 60
Empire
Dated of course, being typically 80s, but maintains a certain charm. - 50
The New York Times
In the failure of Electric Dreams to blend and balance its ingredients properly, plot elements are lost (the brick), credibility is overtaxed (the lovelorn computer), and what remains is high tech without being high art. - 42
Christian Science Monitor
Electric Dreams tries to be as up to the minute as the latest rock video. But it looks more like a tired holdover from the ''psychedelic'' 1960s, another time when frantic visual effects were all the rage, and people rarely stopped to wonder what the point was.
