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WarGames (1983)
Directed by John Badham
“Is it a game, or is it real?”
Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 1h 54m
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.
Cast
Matthew Broderick
Dabney Coleman
John Wood
Ally Sheedy
Barry Corbin
Juanin Clay
Kent Williams
Dennis Lipscomb
Joe Dorsey
Irving Metzman
Michael Ensign
William Bogert
Crew
- Director
- John Badham
- Writer
- Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
- Director of Photography
- William A. Fraker
- Original Music Composer
- Arthur B. Rubinstein
- Editor
- Tom Rolf
- Producer
- Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider
Details
- Release date
- 1983-06-03
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Genres
- Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Sherwood Productions, United Artists
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Box office
- $124,600,000