WarGames
1983 · TMDB 7.1
Directed by John Badham
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.
Why it matters
A young hacker accidentally accesses a military supercomputer and nearly triggers World War III by playing a game of global thermonuclear war.
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Released
- 1983-06-03
- Studio
- Sherwood Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.1
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