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WarGames

Is it a game, or is it real?

1983 · PG · 1h 54m

Directed by John Badham

7.1

TMDB audience score
2,293 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Matthew Broderick
    David Lightman

  • Dabney Coleman
    McKittrick

  • John Wood
    Stephen Falken

  • Ally Sheedy
    Jennifer

  • Barry Corbin
    General Beringer

  • Juanin Clay
    Pat Healy

  • Kent Williams
    Cabot

  • Dennis Lipscomb
    Watson

  • Joe Dorsey
    Conley

  • Irving Metzman
    Richter

  • Michael Ensign
    Beringer's Aide

  • William Bogert
    Mr. Lightman

  • Susan Davis
    Mrs. Lightman

  • James Tolkan
    Wigan

  • David Clover
    Stockman

  • Drew Snyder
    Ayers

  • John Garber
    Corporal in the Infirmary

  • Duncan Wilmore
    Major Lem