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WarGames is credited with popularizing concepts of computer hacking, information technology, and cybersecurity in wider American society. It spawned several video games, a 2008 sequel film, and a 2018 interactive series.
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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- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- John Badham
- 1983-06-03
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. High...
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- John Badham
- PG
- Matthew Broderick
Summaries. 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. A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Mar 6, 2023 · Amazon MGM Studios. 1.19M subscribers. Subscribed. 1.5K. 228K views 1 year ago #WarGames #MGM. A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with...
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Lawrence Lasker. Screenplay. Written by John Chard on April 26, 2020. 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.
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.