

Electric Dreams
Meet Edgar. He'll make you sing, make you dance, make you laugh, make you cry, make you jealous, make you nuts.
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.
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6.4/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5.5M
- Box office
- $2.2M
- Language
- English
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- computer
- love triangle
- architect
- cello
- romcom
- human vs computer
- romantic rival
- independent film
- romantic
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG20 Jul 1984
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalG11 Oct 1984
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical74 Mar 1985
FranceFR
- Theatrical18 Apr 1985
GermanyDE
- Theatrical616 Nov 1984
GreeceGR
- Theatrical137 Feb 1985
ItalyIT
- Theatrical18 Jan 1985
SpainES
- TheatricalAPTA4 Jul 1986
SwedenSE
- Theatrical715 Feb 1985
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Electric Dreams was released on 20 July 1984.
Audience reviews
1- W6/10
Wuchak
12/7/2025
**_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” from seven years ea…
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