WarGames (1983)

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Directed by

John Badham

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Matthew Broderick
David

Dabney Coleman
McKittrick

John Wood
Falken

Ally Sheedy
Jennifer

Barry Corbin
General Beringer

Juanin Clay
Pat Healy

Dennis Lipscomb
Watson

Joe Dorsey
Conley

Written by

Walter F. Parkes
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Walon Green
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A good movie

8 years, 7 months ago at Sep 28 21:28

johanlefourbe

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Basically, it is one of those movies I have been hearing about for years and I was definitely eager to finally check it out. Eventually, it turned out to be a really solid thriller and probably the most convincing movie dealing with hacking that I have seen so far. You see, I have been working in the ICT branch for many years and even though I’m not a expert (the cause of so much frustrations fo... read more

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A young computer whizz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?

Release date: 3 June 1983
UPC: 027616705624

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