WarGames

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 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.

Status: Released (1983-06-03)
Awards:Nominated for 3 Oscars. 4 wins & 14 nominations total
BoxOffice:$79,567,667
Screen:Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
Productions: Sherwood Productions, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Countries: United States of America
Spoken Languages: English
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John Chard

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Wanna play Global Thermonuclear War? It was with much interest to me to revisit this early 80s hacker piece armed with the knowledge of just how the advent of change in the computer world had evolved. With that in mind the film could quite easily be classed as a bit clunky due to ....

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GenerationofSwine

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Ally Sheedy, whatever happened to her. When I was a little kid, I mean REALLY little she was one of the few stars I could name...and then she disappeared save for a couple memorable appearances in Psych. It's a shame. Anyway, my fiance is a Millennial and I've been trying to intro ....

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