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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.
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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 (1983) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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?
That is the message of "WarGames," a scary and intelligent new thriller that is one of the best films so far this year. The movie stars Matthew Broderick (the kid from " Max Dugan Returns ") as a bright high school senior who spends a lot of time locked in his bedroom with his home computer.
Watch WarGames and other popular TV shows and movies including new releases, classics, Hulu Originals, and more. It’s all on Hulu. Matthew Broderick plays a teenage computer hacker who taps his bedroom terminal into the government's top secret missile-defense system.
