WarGames

Science Fiction, Thriller · 1983PG

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."

Starring

Angelo P. Graham, Matthew Broderick, James J. Murakami, Dabney Coleman, Tom Rolf, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Harold Michelson, Walter F. Parkes, Barry Corbin

Director

John Badham