WarGames

★7.1

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 Department of Defense'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.

John Badham

Director

Walter F. Parkes,Lawrence Lasker

Writers

Robert Eggenweiler,Harold Schneider,Richard Hashimoto,...

Producers

$12,000,000

Budget

$124600000

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03-06-1983

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7.074

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1927

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114 min

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Released

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English

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★ 7.1

$12,000,000

Budget

$124,600,000

Revenue

03-06-1983

Release Date

Country

7.074

Rating

1,927

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Age Rating

114 min

Runtime

Released

Status

English

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John Badham

John MacDonald Badham is an English-born American director of film and television, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), and Stakeout (1987). Badham worked in television for years, before his breakthrough in 1977 with Saturday Night Fever, a massive worldwide hit starring John Travolta. WarGames (1983), starring Matthew Broderick, is his other signature film, renowned for its take on popular Cold War fears of nuclear terror, and holocaust, as well as being one of the first films to deal with the subculture of amateur hacking. In addition to his numerous film credits, Badham has also directed and produced for TV, including credits for Rod Serling's Night Gallery, and the A&E television series The Beast. He has also contributed commentary to the web series Trailers from Hell.

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