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WarGames

Is it a game, or is it real?

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Writer: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes

Release Date:
June 3, 1983
Ratings:
7.1 / 10
Director:
John Badham
Companies:
Sherwood Productions

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 Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.