WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. The film stars Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. The film follows David Lightman , a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer 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 simulation causes a national nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III. The film was a box office success, costing US$12... million, but 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 secret live fire exercise of a nuclear attack, many United States Air Force Strategic Missile Wing missileers prove unwilling to turn a required key to launch a missile strike. Such refusals convince Dr. John McKittrick and other systems engineers at NORAD that command of missile silos must be maintained through automation, without human intervention.
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| Release date: | June 3, 1983 |
| Directed by: | John Badham, Martin Brest |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 114 Minutes |
| Producer: | Harold Schneider, Leonard Goldberg, Bruce McNall |
| Editor: | Tom Rolf |
| Music by: | Arthur B. Rubinstein |
| Cinematography: | William A. Fraker |
| Screenplay by: | Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller, Action |