WarGames (1983)


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Is it a game, or is it real?
Themes:SurvivalThe Human ConditionComing Of AgeTechnology Vs. HumanityFreedom Vs. ControlDiscover Similar ThemesMood:DarkAnxiousThought-ProvokingUnsettlingTenseDiscover Similar Mood
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.
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Directed by: John Badham, William A. Fraker, Robert J. Doherty
Produced by: Leonard Goldberg, Richard Hashimoto, Harold Schneider
Composed by: Arthur B. Rubinstein
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