Matthew Broderick
David Lightman
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Jun 3, 1983 · A young hacker accidentally triggers a global thermonuclear war simulation and faces the consequences. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic 80s movie.
- (107K)
- John Badham
- PG
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
WarGames is credited with popularizing concepts of computer hacking, information technology, and cybersecurity in wider American society. [3] [4] [5] It spawned several video games, a 2008 sequel film , and a 2018 interactive series .
- $12 million
- Arthur B. Rubinstein
- Harold Schneider
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...
- (2K)
- John Badham
- PG
- Matthew Broderick
A teenage hacker accidentally triggers a nuclear war simulation that threatens to start World War III. He must convince the computer's creator to stop the countdown before it's too late.
A high school kid challenges a computer to play a nuclear war game and discovers a sinister plot by the Defense Department. Roger Ebert praises the movie's technical and emotional intelligence, and its ending that reveals a shocking truth.
Overview. 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.
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