The film doesn't make sense, it's ridiculous, but it does have a good soundtrack, one of the most recognizable songs from the 80's and it can't help but make you laugh, even if the majority of this laughter comes from discussing what the hell is going on with whoever you're watching it with. Only in the 80's could they make a movie about a computer that falls in love with it's owner's girlfriend. Miles (Lenny Von Dohlen) is an architect/bachelor who is always late for work. A colleague suggests Miles buys a personal organizer to help him run his life more smoothly but instead the sales assistant at the store sells Miles a computer that can do all the latest technology. The computer develops a personality called Edgar and he and Miles become best friend's. Meanwhile, a celloist/girl called Madeline (Virginia Madsen) moves into the upstairs apartment and she and Miles end up dating. Miles spends less time at home with Edgar but also enlists him to help win Madeline's affection's. During the course of this Edgar himself falls in love with Madeline and a love triangle ensues with many funny and emotional consequence's.This is a fantastic movie that's very well acted by it's star's and has an amazing soundtrack which if you don't have already you should order asap! The instrumental love song "Madeline's theme" by Giorgio Moroder is incredibly emotional and wonderful. This film is more than twenty five years old but it will never be out of date. A little bit funny, a little bit sad, and some fantastic music. It won't have you rolling round the aisles with laughter but it is a wonderful family movie.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

A guy rivals with his beige 286 PC over a woman...Hollywood and computers...sigh. It begins when this guy buys this PC, connects it to his boss' mainframe over a 9600bps telephone line and in 2 seconds downloads well uh... everything. This causes the computer to smoke (there was no memory full error in those days apparently) so then he pours champagne over his keyboard which magically gushes into his computers case behind it and somehow fuses the circuits into an AI! Well thanks for the tip, we'll tell our scientists right away, that'll save 'em decades of R&D. To continue: all he needs to do next is connect all of his electrical appliances (blender, TV, radio, door lock) with their electrical plugs into the computer (what ports are those?) and this gives the PC control over all them. It doesn't take long before the computer learns to think, speak, compose music, make poetry - well heck it makes mankind look like a bunch of amateur hacks. Next step: love. Not being content having accomplished human evolution in a day or two the beige evildoer wants the girl this guy has an eye on for himself. The poor schmuck gets terrorized by it but even then he can't bring himself to pull the power plug of the PC (which erases the memory - so does turning of the screen in most films) or that of his demonic appliances. In the end (spoiler) the competitive box comes to it's senses and blows itself up (again by telephone line over which it now manages to pull 40000 volts) as an act of love although the schmuck was going to smash it with an axe if it didn't. Guess the computer was the better man after all. The End. So was it a good film: short answer is no. There is the likable 80s music yes, but as you can tell by my short synopsis the film is utterly ridiculous. Main actor Lenny von Dohlen has no charisma or acting talent and neither has his daft androgynous computer. Virginia Madsen is the only likable one in the whole film, but that can't save it. I'm not sorry I've seen it but there are waaay better 80s movies out there (start with Ferris Bueller's Day Off if you haven't seen any of them).

I Have just bought this on DVD, and I like it lots, One thing that Miles, or (Moles), forgot to do, is that every time you Finnish your computer sessions is to log off or shut down! The music for this film is excellent I like two tracks written by Jeff Lynne I found Madelene to be very pretty and clever with the cello, And I found the story to be funny how can a computer fall in love? it is not possible I also wondered how a geek like miles could pull a girl like her and why did he not tell Madelaine about his computer? I personally would not buy a computer like Edgar without it is checked over by a p.c. tech guy! The graphics on the film I found great. and I also am glad that I have finally bought both the DVD and the CD of the soundtrack I was surprised to find that the producer was Richard Branson and that it is released on Virgin films ltd I can watch this film without getting fed up with it as it is 95 minutes of fun and good music typically 1980's style I once borrowed it on video a long time ago that is where I first saw this brilliant film.

I've seen it during 80's and I remember how people wandered about computers having emotions and feelings. Let me tell you something, this movie is a piece of art right there. I literary could smell the eighties aroma, and the feel of a new computer being bought. The whole movie is so simple and charming. Even to the point of re-evaluating today's lack of emotions and ideas in people, all due to the time spend on a computer, never puzzling one self about mysteries and stories that could come up with it. Remember Terminator? Well, this movie is benign in comparison but the idea of an emotion feeling machine, and at the same time a living AI life form helping you around house is still pretty alive today. Acting is also a very refreshing wave from the past.