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WarGames
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.
1983 · Directed by John Badham · 114 min · Drama · Science Fiction · Thriller · 16 frames
Tagline
Is it a game, or is it real?
Crew
- Written by: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
- Cinematography: William A. Fraker
- Edited by: Tom Rolf
- Music: Arthur B. Rubinstein
- Production design: Angelo P. Graham
- Produced by: Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider
Cast
- Matthew Broderick as David Lightman
- Dabney Coleman as McKittrick
- John Wood as Stephen Falken
- Ally Sheedy as Jennifer
- Barry Corbin as General Beringer
- Juanin Clay as Pat Healy
- Kent Williams as Cabot
- Dennis Lipscomb as Watson
- Joe Dorsey as Conley
- Irving Metzman as Richter
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Sherwood Productions, United Artists
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $124,600,000
- Themes: artificial intelligence (a.i.), computer, government, hacker, video game, cold war, fbi, prosecution, norad, nuclear threat
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