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Category: 13
All Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 1982
Country: USA, Taiwan
Runtime: 96
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Steven Lisberger
Sound: Dolby, 70 mm 6-Track
Taglines:

The Electronic Gladiator

In the future video game battles will be a matter of life or death.

Trapped in a fight to the finish inside the video world he created [UK theatrical]

A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now.

Trapped inside an electronic arena, where love, and escape, do not compute!

Writing by: Steven Lisberger - (story) and
Bonnie MacBird - (story)

Produced by: Harrison Ellenshaw - associate producer
Donald Kushner - producer
Ron Miller - executive producer

Cast: Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn / Clu
Bruce Boxleitner - Alan Bradley / Tron
David Warner - Ed Dillinger / Sark / Voice of Master Control Program
Cindy Morgan - Lora / Yori
Barnard Hughes - Dr. Walter Gibbs / Dumont
Dan Shor - Ram / Popcorn Co-Worker
Peter Jurasik - Crom
Tony Stephano - Peter / Sark's Lieutenant
Craig Chudy - Warrior #1
Vince Deadrick Jr. - Warrior #2 (as Vince Deadrick)
Sam Schatz - Expert Disc Warrior

Music: Wendy Carlos
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Plot Outline: A hacker is literally abducted into the world of a computer and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.
Plot: Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn who is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as the Master Control and reconstituted into the internal, 3-D graphical world of computers. It is there, in the ultimate blazingly colorful, geometrically intense landscapes of cyberspace, that Flynn joins forces with Tron to outmaneuver the Master Control program that holds them captive in the equivalent of a gigantic, infinitely challenging computer game.

Movie Quotes: Yori: I knew you'd escape. They haven't built a circuit that could hold you!

Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
A section of the end credits is in Taiwanese.

Goofs: We know about 11 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Boom mic visible: When the three main characters are talking on the arcade floor, 'Bridges, Jeff' bumps his arm on the mike.

Trivia: There are 24 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Peter O'Toole had been signed to play the role of Dillinger/Sark, but lost interest and dropped out once he visited the set and did not see any physical scenery or tank props as described in the film's script.
Deborah Harry was among the actresses who were screen tested for the role of Lora/Yori.
All the live action that occurred inside the computer was filmed in black and white, and colorized later with photographic and rotoscopic techniques.