Search results
WarGames. WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film [2] directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to ...
Jun 3, 1983 · WarGames: Directed by John Badham. With Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy. A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
PG Released Jun 3, 1983 1h 53m Mystery & Thriller Action Drama Sci-Fi List. ... Watch WarGames with a subscription on Max, rent on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or buy on Fandango at ...
John Badham’s “WarGames” is a techno-thriller that is both quaint and prescient. Centering around buzzing, ticking, and beeping 1980s technologies that may spell the end of humankind, the film revels in modems and two-color displays; but, more importantly, carries the classic and contemporary warning that that same technology can be humanity’s undoing.
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 ...
WarGames is 1435 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 528 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than One Fall but less popular than Ayo Balikan.
Jan 6, 2021 · Enter David Lightman (Broderick), computer nerd. When David hacks WOPR to play a game called Global Thermonuclear War, he inadvertently takes the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. The computer’s creator, Professor Falken (John Wood), designed WOPR – or Joshua, as he calls it – to learn from itself.
