Electric Dreams: Directed by Steve Barron. With Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield, Bud Cort. A young man buys a computer that accidentally becomes sentient and begins to turn its affections toward the man's attractive female neighbor.
Electric Dreams is a 1984 science fiction romantic comedy film directed by Steve Barron (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Rusty Lemorande. The film is set in San Francisco, focusing on a love triangle between an architect (Lenny Von Dohlen), a cellist (Virginia Madsen), and a personal computer named Edgar (Bud Cort) that gains sentience. The film was produced by Virgin.
95 votes, 68 comments. true I was researching weird 70's movies awhile back and stumbled upon sci-fi, A.I., computer control type movies.This was a movie about a smart, engineer, computer scientist who built a smart home that fully automated many modern conveniences. Eventually the smart home computer takes over, locks the man in the house and the battle for his freedom begins.
Thanks for any. The movie made for TV Dream House, from 1998, has the following synopsis (the most complete I found): Computer genius Richard Connor Thornton (Timothy Busfield) hopes to strike it rich with the world's first fully automated house, controlled by " Helen," which even contains a logic chip for anticipating human needs. The family living in the house is visited by an intelligent entity that is made of pure electricity.
The entity begins taking over any device powered by electricity and, like a serial killer, begins its attempts to kill the family before moving on to the next house. It's similar to Maximum Overdrive (1986) in a way, just on a smaller scale. What was the movie where a computer took over a guy's house and trapped him inside? This is the reason I have no smart home utilities to this day.
[Update: It was definitely Electric Dreams. Thank. This is a list of films about computers, featuring fictional films in which activities involving computers play a central role in the development of the plot.
10 great films about computers Nerd. Electric Dreams -The 1984 Romantic Comedy movie featuring Lenny von Dohlen and Virginia Madsen at the award winning 80s Movies Rewind. 8 pages of info, trailer, pictures and more.