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Description

In director John Badham's WARGAMES, Matthew Broderick stars as David

Lightman, a young hacker who accidentally logs on to the Department of

Defense's network. Thinking that he's found a cool new computer game

manufacturer, David plays checkers, chess, and other more intriguing games

like Global Thermonuclear War. Realizing that their system has been tampered

with, military operatives arrest him. However, the computer continues to play

the game of thermonuclear warfare without David and generates the very real

threat of World War III. In an attempt to prevent global disaster, David and his

girlfriend, Jennifer (Ally Sheedy), search desperately for the scientist who

designed the system before the goverment computer initates a full-scale

nuclear war.

A landmark of 1980s cinema, WARGAMES was keenly tuned into its time.

Computers remained a relative mystery in the early 1980s, as they were used

primarily by large corporations and government agencies, but not by many

individuals at home. The general public had already been warned of the danger

of computer takeover in 1968 with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and this paranoia

grew as computers became more popular. The threat of communist takeover

and nuclear war loomed large in the collective consciousness, before the fall of

the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war. Video games had become highly

popular, however, and for a generation of Pac-Man and Space Invaders players

WARGAMES combined the country's deepest fears with its biggest fantasies.

Badham's suspenseful film brings those fears to light in an exciting, fast-paced

film with a great cast (Broderick, Sheedy, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Dabney

Coleman) and excellent special effects.



Special Features

Director And Writers Commentary, Original Theatrical Trailer,

Trivia, Production Notes



Technical Details



Region ALL

Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Full Frame1.85 Wide Screen

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1Dolby Digital Mono

Running Time: 108 minutes

Production Year: 1983

Main Language: English

Subtitles: DanishDutchEnglishFrenchGermanSpanishSwedishFinnish

Dubbed Languages: French

Genre: Action Adventure

Certificate: PG Parental Guidance

Directed by: John Badham

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman,

Barry Corbin