An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman.
Director: Steve Barron
Stars: Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Maxwell Caulfield.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/
Watched online, mediocre print, and the song "written by" the computer is silence. Look for another print.
22 songs in the Soundtracks, only a couple of classical pieces were seen performed.
Cute romcom about a PC who falls for its owner's girl. But what's cute is the fantasy about what a computer could do (and still can't, really): compose music & lyrics, intercept television, learn to speak with a human, and send itself a huge charge of electricity by phone to commit suicide.
This computer is just a desktop, not so cute as the robot in Short Circuit ('86). But it's interesting to watch it learn and become sentient. I don't remember any indication of a private hookup to any network; the internet doesn't get commercial until the late 80's per Wikipedia. The owner is an architect using the computer to develop an earthquake resistant brick.
VM plays a cellist, and the computer plays a duet with her, although she doesn't know it's the computer. I don't think LV shares that info with anyone.
So some music is classical, and the rest is disco, with Culture Club/Boy George and Giorgio Moroder appearing frequently in the Soundtrack.
So the film is ok, but nothing really appealing.
Virgin, distr. MGM/UA, dir. Barron; 6
