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WarGames

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WarGames
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PG,1hr 50min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
June 3, 1983
Director:
John Badham
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood  ...more
Synopsis: Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over ... Full Synopsis
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Keith Phipps, AMG Review
Made at a time when public perception of computers' abilities far exceeded their actual potential, WarGames benefited greatly from the mass confusion inherent in the onset of the home-computing movement. But it's also a relic of its era in other ways as well, tapping into a fresh vein of Cold War anxiety that arrived with the Reagan administration's new concentration on the arms race. As much as the ... Full Review
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Matthew Broderick
David
Dabney Coleman
McKittrick
John Wood
Falken
Ally Sheedy
Jennifer
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