WarGames

Is it a game, or is it real?

Plot Summary

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.

7.1 /10

1983

US

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artificial intelligence (a.i.)

computer

government

hacker

video game

cold war

fbi

prosecution

norad

nuclear threat