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WarGames (1983)

WarGames (1983)

Action Science Fiction Drama Thriller

Is it a game, or is it real?

Release Date: 1983, June 3
Directors: John Badham
Countries: United States of America
Production: Sherwood Productions, United Artists
Cast: John Spencer, William H. Macy, James Tolkan, Matthew Broderick, Michael Madsen, Barry Corbin, Jason Bernard, Eddie Deezen, Ally Sheedy, Michael Ensign, Frances E. Nealy, Lucinda Crosby

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.

Keywords:

artificial intelligence (a.i.) hacker cold war political thriller government hopeful tense fbi paranoid video game prosecution computer nuclear threat norad cyber thriller