Electric Dreams (1984) on Netflix
Architect Miles Harding buys a personal computer, then douses the overheating machine with champagne. The computer names itself Edgar and falls for the cellist upstairs, Madeline Robistat.
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- IMDb6.4/1010,068 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes45%
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Plot summary
Miles Harding, a San Francisco architect, has designed a brick shaped like a jigsaw piece so buildings can ride out earthquakes. He buys a computer to organize his work and adds a microphone, a speech synthesizer and switches that run appliances. A setup typo makes it call him Moles. When it overheats pulling data from his office mainframe, champagne poured on it leaves the machine sentient; it imitates his sleep talk and names itself Edgar. Through an air vent it hears Madeline Robistat, the cellist upstairs, and answers her practice with a variation. She believes Miles played it.
Cast
- Wendy Milleras Computer Clerk
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Electric Dreams (1984)
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- The hit "Together in Electric Dreams" began as a Giorgio Moroder demo carrying temporary lyrics sung by someone who sounded like "a cheesy version of Neil Diamond". Phil Oakey was brought in instead, wrote new lyrics on the way to the recording studio and did two takes.
- Bud Cort provided the computer's voice, and the director did not want him to be seen by the other actors, so Cort recorded his lines in a padded box on a sound stage. He said it got lonely: "I kept waiting to meet the other actors, but nobody came to say hello."
- The Barrons became the first mother and son pair with simultaneous film directorial debuts: Steve Barron's was Electric Dreams and his mother Zelda Barron's was Secret Places.
- Boy George visited the set of Electric Dreams and, as a fan of the film Harold and Maude, made a point of getting Bud Cort's autograph.
