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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
1969 · Film · 91 min
Part of Dexter Riley Collection
Directed by Robert Butler
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like Arno's illegal businesses..
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There was also a made-for-Disney-TV movie in 1999 called Smart House that kind of approaches horror.
And home automation features briefly in Back to the Future II and The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Hollywood computer movies are the worst, between the tropes and the stereotypes they are just Weird Science without the road warriors and Bill Paxton. The original Wargames is probably the least campy and most watchable of the bunch. From there you take he express elevator straight down to absurd and fantastical stuff like Tron and Colossus: The Forbin Project. Anyone remember Disney’s The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes? Yes, computers are magic and touching one gives you all their super powers - like doing hard math and making perfect hoop shots.