tries to unplug it, getting an electric shock. Then, the computer retaliates by harassing him with an improvised maze of remotely controlled household electronics, in the style of Pac-Man. Eventually, Edgar accepts Madeline and Miles' love for each other, and appears to commit suicide by sending a large electric current out through his acoustic coupler modem, around the world, and finally reaching back to himself just after he and Miles make amends. Later, as Madeline and Miles go on vacation together, Edgar's voice is heard on the radio dedicating a song to "the ones I love", titled "Together in Electric Dreams". The credits are interspersed with scenes of the song being heard all over California, including a radio station trying to shut it off, declaring that they do not know where the signal is coming from. Cast Lenny Von Dohlen as Miles Harding Virginia Madsen as Madeline Robistat Maxwell Caulfield as Bill Bud Cort as Voice of Edgar Don Fellows as Mr. Ryley Miriam Margolyes as Ticket girl Giorgio Moroder as Record producer Koo Stark as Girl in Soap Opera Production Steve Barron had made more than 100 music videos and routinely sent them to his mother for comment. She particularly liked one he did for Haysi Fantayzee; she was doing continuity on Yentl, co-produced by Rusty Lemorande and Larry deWaay and showed it to them. Lemorande had finished his own script for Electric Dreams and was looking for a director; he offered Barron the job. Barron took the script to Virgin Films, and it agreed to finance within four days. The film was presold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer who held rights for the U.S., Canada, Japan and South East Asia. Two months after Virgin agreed to make the movie, filming began in San Francisco. Studio work was done in London at Twickenham Studios. Virginia Madsen later recalled she "was very spoiled on that movie, because it was such a lovefest that I now believe that every movie should be like that ... I had a mad, crazy crush on Lenny Von Dohlen. God, we were so ... we were head-over-heels for each other. Nothing happened, and at this point, I admit it: I wanted it to happen ... He's still one of my best friends." Bud Cort provided the voice of the computer. The director did not want Cort to be seen by the other actors during scenes so Cort had