Tron is a classic Disney Animated Film that paved the way for computer graphics. Staring Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a talented computer programmer who's work was stolen by a co-worker and passed on as their own. Bridges character then embarks to find proof of this injustice within his former employers (ENCOM) mainframe servers. In doing so Flynn is captured and brought inside the "cyberspace" like environment through the use of an experimental laser. The remainder of the movie takes place within the computer systems and uses several ground breaking techniques of computer generated graphics. On September 11, 2007, director Joseph Kosinski signed on to make Tron 2.
Fast Facts:
- Released: July 9, 1982
- Running Time: 96 minutes
- Budge: $17,000,000 (estimated)
- Domestic Gross: $33,000,000
- Starring: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, Dan Shor, David Warner
- Director: Steven Lisberger
- One of the first films to extensively use computer graphics
- Tagline: A world inside the computer where man has never been. Never before now.
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