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WarGames (1983)
Directed by John Badham
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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.
Rated PG | Length 114 minutes
Actors
Matthew Broderick | Dabney Coleman | John Wood | Ally Sheedy | Barry Corbin | Juanin Clay | Kent Williams | Dennis Lipscomb | Joe Dorsey | Irving Metzman | Michael Ensign | William Bogert | Susan Davis | James Tolkan | David Clover | Drew Snyder | John Garber | Duncan Wilmore | Billy Ray Sharkey | John Spencer | Michael Madsen | James Lemp | Gary Bisig | Gary Sexton | Jason Bernard | Frankie Hill | Jesse D. Goins | Alan Blumenfeld | Len Lawson | Maury Chaykin | Eddie Deezen | Stephen Lee | Lucinda Crosby | Stack Pierce | Art LaFleur | Brad David | Martha Shaw | Howie Allen | Michael Adams | James Ackerman | Jim Harriott | Tom Lawrence | Frances E. Nealy | Charles Akins | Glenn Standifer | Edward Jahnke | Paul V. Picerni Jr. | William H. Macy