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WarGames (1983)

PG114 minThriller, Science Fiction

7.074 / 10

1,957 votes

Budget: $12MRevenue: $125M

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 girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

Directed by John Badham