WarGames
Is it a game, or is it real?
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.
- Year: 1983
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama
- Studio: Sherwood Productions, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Keyword: artificial intelligence (a.i.), computer, government, hacker, video game, cold war, fbi, prosecution, norad, nuclear threat
- Director: John Badham
- Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay