Electric Dreams (film)

Electric Dreams (film)

Electric Dreams is a 1984 British-American comedy/drama/romance/science fiction film set in San Francisco, California, that depicts a love triangle between a man, a woman, and a home computer. It stars Lenny Von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, and Bud Cort and was directed by Steve Barron. It was the first film released by the Virgin Films production company.

The soundtrack features music from prominent popular musicians of the time, being among the movies of this generation that actively explored the commercial link between a movie and its soundtrack. The soundtrack album Electric Dreams was re-issued on CD in 1998. The song "Together In Electric Dreams" was digitally remastered in 2003.

The film's credits dedicate it to the memory of UNIVAC I.

It was released in 1984 (VHS) and again in 1991 (VHS), but has not been manufactured since the mid-1990s. MGM Home Video released a Laserdisc in America in 1985, and Warner Bros released a Video CD version for the Singapore market in 2001, but both are out of print. The movie was released to Region 2 DVD on April 6, 2009. It has never been released on Blu-ray and there is only one publicly-rentable print of the original 35mm film available, as shown at the Prince Charles Cinema in London on 9th August 2012.