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WarGames

Cast

Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy View All


Crew

Walter F. Parkes (Screenplay), John Badham (Director), Lawrence Lasker (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jun. 3rd, 1983
Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes
High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) 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 (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
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Citizen Rules
When the young man David (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly plays what he thinks is an innocent game with the NORAD computer, he starts the clock ticking on WW3.
The Gnat
Overall this is a film that needs to be enjoyed now on a simpler level then what people would look at it before..


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