Matthew Broderick
David Lightman
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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.
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a simulation of an armed conflict. [1] . Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to study the nature of potential conflicts.
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.
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.
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.
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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- Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- PG
WarGames (1983) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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Jun 1, 2018 · 1. THE ORIGINAL IDEA WASN’T ABOUT COMPUTERS OR HACKING. Before it became a story that blended the rise of hackers and personal computing with the ongoing threats of the Cold War, WarGames was an...
