Fantastic!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Though it's an old movie it's very interesting viewing the way people imagined the technology in that era. The computer seeking the meaning of love is a very sweet thing in the movie. Of course is sad the fact the computer kill it's circuits... :-)

'Electric Dreams' isn't the sort of film I'd usually watch, but I was drawn to it for a few reasons. The first was Lenny von Dohlen - I'd only known him as Harold from 'Twin Peaks', and thought he was a peculiar choice for a lead role. The second was Virginia Madsen; I'm not too familiar with much of her work, but I watched 'Candyman' a few months ago and thought she was a brilliant actress. Neither of these two performers disappoint in 'Electric Dreams'. The writing is a little hit-and-miss, especially when the computer begins to acquire a personality. It isn't as detrimental as it could have been, though, due to the film's lightheartedness. This was director Steve Barron's first feature project and the only film he directed in the '80s - he spent most of the decade directing music videos for the likes of Bryan Adams, A-ha and even Michael Jackson. The director's background will make a lot of sense when you watch 'Electric Dreams' -- if you're expecting something quite cerebral like Spike Jonze's 'Her', you'll be disappointed.

Young leads Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen, an appealing '80s soundtrack and a decorative direction from Steve Barron are almost enough to make computerized fairy tale worth watching. Nebbish architect in San Francisco, admonished by his superior for failing to keep a tight schedule, buys his first home computer to help straighten out his life. While working on a gizmo that will keep buildings safe during earthquakes, this not-nutty professor accidentally douses his new PC with champagne, which has the opposite effect of a malfunction: the computer is reborn with its own personality. Meanwhile, a pretty concert cellist has just moved in upstairs... Boy-girl meet-cute (with the computer playing both cupid and romantic adversary) inches itself along, engaging but in fits and starts, buoyed by Barron's music montages and Madsen's sunny smile. Rusty Lemorande's mercurial screenplay is a liability; the computer's impertinent nature coupled with the architect's bursts of irritability are off-putting ingredients in a featherweight doodle like this. The supporting characters never emerge, and Bud Cort's voice as Edgar the computer is a gimmick that doesn't come off. ** from ****

Steve Barron's "Electric Dreams" will almost certainly be one of the hardest movies to find, but if you can you should definitely check it out. It got released around the time when computers were starting to become part of everyone's lives, and it seems to be predicting just how much these devices would come to dominate our lives. Lenny Von Dohlen (never heard of him until I saw this movie) plays an architect who buys a computer to get better organized, but an unexpected event turns the thing into a sillier version of HAL...especially after the owner falls for his musician neighbor (a young Virginia Madsen).At once piece of light entertainment and a look at relationships, this movie does it just right. Some scenes are probably just comic relief, like the concert, but the computer does teach the man a good lesson about life. You're bound to love what the computer does in the movie's last scene.All in all, a really fun movie. I can't believe that it's out of print while tons of boring movies get special edition DVDs. Definitely check it out if you can. Watch for a young Miriam Margolyes as a ticket taker.