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Tron (1982)
Director: Steven Lisberger
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Disney's twenty million dollar bid to break into the booming fantasy market is a sympathetic but slightly clumsy rewrite of The Wizard of Oz, with a whizkid programmer (Bridges) trapped inside a computer world. The film boasts some impressive computer-generated animation, but for all its inventiveness, Tron never reaches a level of excitement commensurate with its effects budget. Indeed, in what might have proved to be a dire precedent for the cinema, Tron the video game is probably better than Tron the movie.Author: DP
Cast & crew
Director: Steven Lisberger
Producer: Donald Kushner
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes, Dan Shor full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 96 mins
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