Electric Dreams

Name: Electric Dreams
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Music
Released: July 20, 1984
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 52
Cast: Alan Polonsky, Bud Cort, Don Fellows, Harry Rabinowitz, Holly De Jong

1984

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MGM/UA Entertainment Company | Release Date: July 20, 1984 | PG

Starring: Alan Polonsky, Bud Cort, Don Fellows, Harry Rabinowitz, Holly De Jong, Lenny Von Dohlen, Maxwell Caulfield, Miriam Margolyes, Virginia Madsen, Wendy Miller

Summary: An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.

Director: Steve Barron

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, Romance, Music

Rating: PG

Runtime: 95 min

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Roger Ebert

One of the nicest things about the movie is the way it maintains its note of slightly bewildered innocence. Read full review

Sean O'Neal

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. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

David Ansen

The viewer is diverted, but not terribly involved. As a romantic partner, hardware has considerably less resonance than Cary Grant. [06 Aug 1984, p.74]

Lawrence Van Gelder

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. Read full review

David Sterritt

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. Read full review

Bill Cosford

Electric Dreams seems to take forever to establish its premise and its characters, who (computer excepted) are nonetheless rather one-dimensional. [23 Jul 1984, p.C6]

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