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1983, Movie, PG, 113 mins

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Slick and suspenseful, John Badham's cautionary adventure tells the story of a high school hacker (Matthew Broderick) who manages to tap into the Pentagon's top defense computer. Thinking he's discovered a great new video game, "Global Thermonuclear War," he innocently brings the U.S. and Soviet Union to the brink of World War III. Read the complete review for Wargames
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The film is set late in the Cold War period, opening on a U.S. Air Force ICBM launch control center where its crew receives orders to launch nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union; when the crew commander (played by John Spencer) fails to launch their missiles, this is revealed to be part of a larger psychological experiment by the military, testing whether U.S. missile crews would do the same in the event of a real nuclear attack. It is mentioned that twenty-two percent of crews tested failed to launch their missiles, prompting NORAD to install an automated computer system, the "War Operation Plan Response" or WOPR, to oversee launching of U.S. nuclear missiles.
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A teenaged whiz-kid doesn't at first realize that the cool computer game he has stumbled on to is actually a real missile defense system.
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A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
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Length: 01:53:00
Posted: 1/25/2008
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Year: 1983
Rated PG

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Cast
Matthew Broderick: David
Dabney Coleman: McKittrick
John Wood: Falken
Ally Sheedy: Jennifer
Barry Corbin: Gen. Beringer
Juanin Clay: Pat Healy

 

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