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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 · 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
A wargame simulates an armed conflict, be it a battle, a campaign, or an entire war. Business wargames do not simulate armed conflict and thus fall outside the scope of this article. A wargame is adversarial.
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.
- 3 min
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- Amazon MGM Studios
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.
- (47)
- John Badham
- PG
- Matthew Broderick
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.
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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.
