Now, before we get into the essentials of how you can watch 'WarGames' right now, here are some finer points about the Sherwood Productions, United Artists drama flick. WarGames starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy has a PG rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 54 min. The release date of the movie is June 3rd, 1983. The movie received a user score of 71/100 on TMDb, which comes from reviews from 2,056 platform users.
Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "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 friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon."
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WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy. The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses War Operation Plan Response (WOPR), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a computer game. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III. A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct-to-video in 2008.
