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                    TRON is a movie made by computers, about computers,

               for humans.  It is the first of its genre, a journey

               through the CRT looking glass into the electronic realm.

               The action takes place at Encom, a massive computer

               conglomerate (Atari or Apple??) that was O.K. in the good

               old days. But now Encom has become so large and nebulous

               that no one knows what is really going on except bad

               guy Sark/Dillinger (David Warner) and his megalomaniac 

               Master Control Program (MCP).

               Throw in your basic All-American maverick good-guy

               Han Solo type (Flynn, played by Jeff Bridges), plus a

               nice-guy conformist Luke Skywalker that ends up with the

               girl (Allen `TRON` Bradley, played by Bruce Boxleitner),

               Cindy Morgan is Princess Lea,  and Bernard Hughes as

               Obi-Wan Kenobi (Dumont).  How can you miss?  Star Wars

               in a computer.  The good guys vs. the bad guys at the

               Silicon Corrall.

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                    The acting, plot, and screenplay can be summed up in

               one statement.  Thank God for computer generated 3-D

               graphics. They`re absolutely incredible.The new possibilities

               of camera angle, lighting, not to mention creating
                                                    
               entirely new imaginary universes.  Instead of constructing

               a set with brick and mortar, the world of TRON is built

               with pixels and computer algorithms.  The result is something

               quite out of this world.