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WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
Jun 3, 1983 · A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3.
Part delightfully tense techno-thriller, part refreshingly unpatronizing teen drama, WarGames is one of the more inventive -- and genuinely suspenseful -- Cold War movies of the 1980s.
- Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3.
WARGAMES (1983) | Official Trailer | MGM. A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. ...more.
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions.
Wargames. The fate of mankind rests in the hands of a teenager who accidentally taps in the Defense Department's tactical computer. 5,101 IMDb 7.1 1 h 52 min 1983. X-Ray PG. Action · Adventure · Cerebral · Exciting. Free trial of Max, rent, or buy. Watch with Max. Start your 7-day free trial. Rent. HD $3.99. Buy. HD $14.99. More purchase. options.
Jul 21, 2008 · How did WarGames become the geek-geist classic that legitimized hacker culture, minted the nerd hero — and maybe even changed American defense policy? Related question: Shall we play a game?
When a teenage tech whiz (Matthew Broderick) accidentally hacks into the Defense Department's war computer, he inadvertently pushes the United States to the edge of WWIII.
Official Trailer. A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
