WarGames (1983)
Is it a game, or is it real?
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Metacritic77%
TMDb7.068/10Trailer
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About WarGames
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 Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
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