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WarGames

Release Date:June 3, 1983

Running Time:114 min

Genres:Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction

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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

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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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