WarGames
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| Directed by | John Badham |
| Produced by |
Leonard Goldberg Rich Hashimoto Harold K. Schneider Bruce McNall |
| Written by |
Lawrence Lasker Walter F. Parkes Walon Green |
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| Music by | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
| Cinematography | William A. Fraker |
| Edited by | Tom Rolf |
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| Distributed by | MGM/UA Entertainment Company |
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114 minutes |
| Country | United States & Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million |
| Box office | $79.6 million |
WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War thriller 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 WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally 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.
The film was a box office success, costing US$12 million, and grossing $79,567,667 after five months in the United States and Canada. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards. A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD on July 29, 2008.
During a surprise drill of a nuclear attack, many United States Air Force Strategic Missile Wing controllers prove unwilling to turn a required key to launch a missile strike. Such refusals convince John McKittrick and other systems engineers at NORAD that missile launch control centers must be automated, without human intervention. Control is given to a NORAD supercomputer, WOPR, programmed to continuously run war simulations and learn over time.
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