Yearning to watch 'WarGames' in the comfort of your own home? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the John Badham-directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at Moviefone want to do right by you.
Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'WarGames' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'WarGames' right now, here are some details about the Sherwood Productions, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer science fiction flick.
Released June 3rd, 1983, 'WarGames' stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 54 min, and received a user score of 71 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from 1,854 top users.
What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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."
'WarGames' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Max, Apple iTunes, Microsoft Store, HBO Max Amazon Channel, and YouTube .
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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.
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