Electric Dreams (1984)
Directed by Steve Barron
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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What critics compared Electric Dreams to
Indeed, in Jonze’s radical retelling of the “Pinocchio” story (by way of 1984’s techno-romance “Electric Dreams,”), Samantha’s great existential crisis isn’t that she yearns to be a real, flesh-and-blood human.
In science fiction, we’ve seen similar themes in movies like “Metropolis” (1927) and “Electric Dreams” (1984).
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Virginia Madsen was amazing in Electric Dreams, Sideways and Candyman.