TRON

19821982
PGPG
1h 36min

Jeff Bridges, Dean Edward Mitzner, and Cindy Morgan in TRON (1982)

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

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A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

Director
- Steven Lisberger
Writers
- Steven Lisberger(screenplay)
- Bonnie MacBird(story)
- Charles S. Haas(screenplay)
Stars

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 wins & 8 nominations total

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Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition

Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition

Tron: The Original Classic Special Edition

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Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan in TRON (1982)

Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan in TRON (1982)

Bruce Boxleitner and Jeff Bridges in TRON (1982)

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Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan in TRON (1982)

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TRON (1982)

TRON (1982)

TRON (1982)

Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan in TRON (1982)

TRON (1982)

TRON (1982)

Director
- Steven Lisberger
Writers
- Steven Lisberger(screenplay) (story)
- Bonnie MacBird(story)
- Charles S. Haas(screenplay) (uncredited)
All cast & crew
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Hacker/arcade owner Kevin Flynn is digitally broken down into a data stream by a villainous software pirate known as 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. —Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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Taglines
- The Electronic Gladiator
Genres
Certificate
- PG
Parents guide

Trivia
The film was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt at the time that using computers was "cheating".

Goofs
When Ram and Flynn are back in their cells Ram is doing tricks with his identity disk. The close-up of Ram's hands show he has no gloves on. When they cut to a wide shot Ram has gloves on.

Quotes
Alan Bradley: [about the digitizing laser] Great. Can it send me to Hawaii?
Lora: Yep, but you gotta purchase your program 30 days in advance. How's it going upstairs?
Alan Bradley: Frustrating. I had Tron almost ready, when Dillinger cut everyone with Group-7 access out of the system. I tell you ever since he got that Master Control Program, the system's got more bugs than a bait store.
Dr. Walter Gibbs: [laughs] You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.
Alan Bradley: Some programs will be thinking soon.
Dr. Walter Gibbs: Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop.

Crazy credits
A section of the end credits is in Taiwanese.

Alternate versions
The light cycle sequence originally had background music. This alternate scene is present on the special laserdisc edition.

Connections
Edited into The Making of 'Tron' (2002)

Soundtracks
Only Solutions
Written and Performed by Journey

Top review

Poetical cyberadventure

Excuse me, but : wow ! I feel sorry for those who are disillusioned, but Tron (1982) is nothing to me but pure magic ! A poetical "cyberadventure" where the cyber world is a methaphorical representation of the "real" one. And to think that those images were produced, and more unbelievable, imagined, in the early eighties ! OK, by today's standards, it might not look so impressive to some viewers, but still... And the imagination behind that movie, those graphics : wonderful ! I wish to be yet surprised by unexpected ideas such as Tron. And I am not necessarily thinking about a sequel : just surprise me ! Tron (1982) : a classic of the 7th art !

Eric Quebec, Canada

P.S.: Excuse my English, I am French-Canadian.

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Release date
- July 9, 1982 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- TRON: The Original Classic
Filming locations
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - 7000 East Avenue, Livermore, California, USA
Production companies
- Walt Disney Productions
- Lisberger/Kushner
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Budget
- $17,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $33,000,000
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,761,795
- Jul 11, 1982
Gross worldwide
- $33,000,525

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Runtime
- 1h 36min
Color
- Color
Aspect ratio
- 2.20 : 1(original aspect ratio, 70 mm prints)

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