WarGames
- Released on
- Runtime
- 114 mins
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Cast
- Matthew Broderick
- Dabney Coleman
- John Wood
- Ally Sheedy
- Barry Corbin
- Juanin Clay
- Kent Williams
- Dennis Lipscomb
- Joe Dorsey
- Irving Metzman
- Michael Ensign
- William Bogert
- Susan Davis
- James Tolkan
- David Clover
- Drew Snyder
- John Garber
- Duncan Wilmore
- Billy Ray Sharkey
- John Spencer
- Michael Madsen
- James Lemp
- Gary Bisig
- Gary Sexton
- Jason Bernard
- Frankie Hill
- Jesse D. Goins
- Alan Blumenfeld
- Len Lawson
- Maury Chaykin
- Eddie Deezen
- Stephen Lee
- Lucinda Crosby
- Stack Pierce
- Art LaFleur
- Brad David
- Martha Shaw
- Howie Allen
- Michael Adams
- James Ackerman
- Jim Harriott
- Tom Lawrence
- Frances E. Nealy
- Charles Akins
- Glenn Standifer
- Edward Jahnke
- Paul V. Picerni Jr.
- William H. Macy
Director
- John Badham
Producers
- Richard Hashimoto
- Harold Schneider
Screenwriter
- Lawrence Lasker
- Walter F. Parkes
