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 This film is more than twenty five years old but it will never be out of date.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.

When viewing this film one must remember it was made in 1984. Starring Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen and a computer... it is barely palatable rainy-Saturday-afternoon fare. Its primary plus is that it was Virginia Madsen's first movie and she came across well as the central romantic interest.We can't judge this movie by today's standards. With Jurassic Park still nine years away, CGI at that time was in very primitive stages. The computer used a CRT screen and telephone modem. That gives the viewer a hint of the era. As such, the movie has fairly advanced concepts: speech recognition, artificial intelligence, computer data exchange (the World Wide Net was still some time in the future)... so in those aspects the movie was "interesting".While I can't say this movie was a "stinker" (there are certainly far worse movies out there)... it is a yawner. The somewhat predictable plot as well as the "any old ending will do" wrap-up makes this an hour and a half of time to spend cleaning one's house instead. Parents would want to be cautioned about a singular and brief repetitive line of offensive language as the computer is learning to "speak"-- as well as increased cursing near the end of the movie.Bottom line there is better fare to watch. Aside from the historical aspect (Madisen's first real role and the concept of computers in 1984)... this is one that can be skipped with no loss. The character drama was cliché and over-the-top, the script juvenile, the music seemingly thrown in just to promote the songs and sell the soundtrack (common for the 80s)... and the story not all that entertaining. Not family fare... and not really all that appealing to adults either, this flick is a "watch it once" movie-- if you must. I doubt many will watch it a second time.

Briefly, this is Cyrano de Bergerac for the computer age. We get a ravishingly pretty and sweet, yet sophisticated and street smart heroine in Virginia Madsen as Madeline Robistat, a gifted professional cellist; and a hapless, naive and disorganised but very decent and stalwart hero, Lenny Dohlen as Miles Harding, a civil engineer and very unpracticed suitor, whose attraction is not rakish charm, but empathy and pureness of heart. Then we have the ambiguous third wheel, a computer with self-awareness and a mysterious love of music and pretty girls who can create music.The film is imaginative, funny and also wise about both love and life. It is staffed by good actors who have good material and use it well. Besides the excellent pairing of Virginia Madsen and Lenny Dohlen, we get Bud Cort as the voice of Edgar, the computer (the name references Wuthering Heights and the third wheel character in that love tragedy); Cort gives a splendid performance in this voice role, always hitting exactly the appropriate tragic-comic note.Music is the essence of the story and the film is full of fine music, both new-wave pop (early 1980s style) and classical with a modern twist. The story is about music as well as about love and relationships, and it has some intriguing things to tell us. For example, it takes Miles, who cannot play an instrument, to know that when Madeline accidentally breaks her cello, it is a setback rather than an irretrievable disaster. Miles, who could never have played Madeline's cello, knows that the true magic is in Madeline, and not in her cello. One of the themes of the film is a really intelligent observational study of music and how music works.This is a really smart and stylish film, which also has depth and substance behind the 1980s flashiness. It still has the power to entertain.

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.