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Tron (1982)

Director: Steven Lisberger

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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

Time Out Film Guide

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Tron

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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