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Budget. $12 million. Box office. $124.6 million. WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film [2] directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy.
- $12 million
- Arthur B. Rubinstein
- Harold Schneider
Jun 3, 1983 · WarGames: Directed by John Badham. With Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. 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.
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- John Badham
- PG
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War ...
- (2K)
- John Badham
- PG
- Matthew Broderick
David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is a bright but unmotivated Seattle high school student and hacker. After receiving a failing grade in school, he uses his IMSAI microcomputer to hack into the district's computer system. He then changes his grade and does the same for his friend and classmate Jennifer Mack (Ally Sheedy).
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The movie, however, could easily go wrong by bogging us down in impenetrable computerese, or by ignoring the technical details altogether and giving us a "Fail Safe" retread. "WarGames" makes neither mistake. It convinces us that it knows computers, and it makes its knowledge into an amazingly entertaining thriller.
