A video game designer trying to prove a big time executive stole his idea is sucked into a corporation's mainframe where programs are personified counterparts of their writers and "users" are subjects of religious faith. A well-crafted and scripted metaphor, TRON benefits from breakthrough computer animation.

The MCP, a master computer program, is appropriating all other programs in order to become the controlling program in the world. To regain access to the computer for users, hacker Kevin Flynn sneaks into the system, but gets himself digitized. Stuck inside the system, he pretends to be a program and manages to help another program, Tron, free the machine from the tyrannical control of the MCP.

As Disney animated films anthropomorphized animals, giving them the characteristics of humans, "Tron" does the same for things electronic, making the insides of the circuitry of a computer into an entire world.

Laserdisc version is the Collector's Edition, from Disney's Archive Collection.

Excerpt: "The best programmer ENCOM ever saw, and he winds up playing space cowboy in some back room." (Alan, about Flynn)

"User requests are what computers are for." (Walter)
"Doing our business is what computers are for." (Dillinger)

"With the information I can access, I can run things 900 to 1200 times better than any human." (The Master Control Program to Dillinger)

"I knew you'd come. They haven't built a circuit that can hold you." (Yori to Tron)

DVD Features:

Region 1
2-Disc Set

Disc #1: Theatrical Version
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. Steven Lisberger - Director, Donald Kushner - Producer, Harrison Ellenshaw and Richard Taylor - Visual Effects
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Disc #2: Supplementary Material
Full Frame
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Additional Footage - 1. Pre-production Animation Tests
2. Computer Animation Design and Memo Reels
Additional Audio Material - 1. Deleted Original Soundtrack Music
Electronic Press Kit
Making-of - 1. "The Making of TRON"
Film-to-Storyboard Comparison
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Stills
Photos - 1. Production Photo Gallery Showcase
Production Art

Distributor Notes: TRON

A masterpiece of breakthrough CGI ingenuity, Disney celebrates the 20th anniversary of TRON, a dazzling film at the flashpoint of a continuing revolution in its genre. This special collector's edition showcases an epic adventure inside a brave new world where the action is measureed in microseconds. When Flynn (Jeff Bridges) hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer to prove his work was stolen by another executive, he finds himself on a much bigger adventure. Beamed inside by a power-hungry master control program, he joins computer gladiators on a deadly game grid, complete with high-velocity "light cycles" and Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), a specialized security program. Together, they fight the ultimate battle with the MCP to decide the fate of both the electronic world and the real world!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Jeff Bridges: American actor IRON MAN, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, STARMAN
Bruce Boxleitner: American TV Actor
David Warner: British Actor
Cindy Morgan: Actress
Barnard Hughes: American Actor
Dan Shor: American Character Actor

Steven Lisberger: American Director/Screenwriter

"...[The film has] visual delights....[The] computer-generated visuals created by divers hands are impressive..."
"...Its visual effects are wonderfully new..."
"...The first theatrical movie to extensively utilize computer-generated animation plays better today..."