WarGames
MovieTitle | WarGames |
User score | 7.1 |
Release date | Jun 3, 1983 |
Genre | Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama |
Director | John Badham |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Sherwood Productions, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Budget | $12,000,000 |
Revenue | $124,600,000 |
Run time | 114 min. |
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 Defense Department'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.