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WarGames (1983)

Movie"Is it a game, or is it real?"
Audience Score
71
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PG 1 hr 54 minJun 3rd, 1983Science Fiction, Drama, ThrillerWarGames Collection PosterPart of WarGames Collection
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. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
StarringMatthew BroderickDabney ColemanJohn Wood
DirectorJohn Badham

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 3rd, 1983 - Buy Tickets
On DVD & Blu-ray:April 29th, 1998 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$12,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$124,600,000 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Leonard Goldberg
Production Companies:Sherwood Productions, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Movie Tags:
video gameartificial intelligence (a.i.)fbicold warcomputergovernmenthackerprosecutionnuclear threatnorad

WarGames Collection

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy. The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses War Operation Plan Response (WOPR), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III. A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct-to-video in 2008.