WarGames

Is it a game, or is it real?

WarGames (1983)

Timing: 1:54 (114 min)

7.071/10
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Actors and characters

Release date

1983-06-03

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Sherwood Productions, Leonard Goldberg Productions, MGM

Genre

Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama

Budget

$12 000 000

Revenue

$124 600 000

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Director

John Badham

Actors

Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay, Kent Williams, Dennis Lipscomb, Joe Dorsey, Irving Metzman
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Producer

Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider, Leonard Goldberg

Operator

William A. Fraker

Composer

Arthur B. Rubinstein

Artist

Audition

Wallis Nicita

Editing

Tom Rolf
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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.

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