WarGames
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- Common Sense Age 11+
- Critics Consensus 93%
- HD
- CC
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- Drama
- 1 Hour 52 Minutes
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4.4, 350 Ratings
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A teenager, bored by traditional high school subjects like biology but fascinated by computers, accidentally taps into the Pentagon's top-secret computer...the USA's NORAD system. He starts what he innocently believes is a computer game called "Global Thermonuclear War," but the "game" is real. The Pentagon's best minds cannot shut down or reprogram the supercomputer that is readying a missile attack against the USSR, and thereby unleash Armageddon. The teen and his girlfriend attempt to aid the helpless Pentagon and, in a frantic race against a ticking "doomsday clock," try to persuade the computer to end the "game."
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- Rent $3.99
- Buy $14.99
A teenager, bored by traditional high school subjects like biology but fascinated by computers, accidentally taps into the Pentagon's top-secret computer...the USA's NORAD system. He starts what he innocently believes is a computer game called "Global Thermonuclear War," but the "game" is real. The Pentagon's best minds cannot shut down or reprogram the supercomputer that is readying a missile attack against the USSR, and thereby unleash Armageddon. The teen and his girlfriend attempt to aid the helpless Pentagon and, in a frantic race against a ticking "doomsday clock," try to persuade the computer to end the "game."
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- Rent $3.99
- Buy $14.99
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Ratings and Reviews
Critics Consensus: Part delightfully tense techno-thriller, part refreshingly unpatronizing teen drama, WarGames is one of the more inventive -- and genuinely suspenseful -- Cold War movies of the 1980s.
Suspenseful Cold War tale with teen gamer in control.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- John Badham
- Producers
- Leonard Goldberg
- Harold Schneider
- Screenwriter
- William A. Fraker
- Lawrence Lasker
- Walon Green
- Walter F. Parkes
