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Name: WarGames
Director: John Badham
Genre: drama, science-fiction, thriller
Released: 1983
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 7.1

WarGames has an iRankMovies score of 78/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

WarGames (1983)

Is it a game, or is it real?

Release:1983

Runtime:1h 54m

Country:United States

Director:John Badham

Language:English

Genre

DramaScience FictionThriller

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Keywords

Artificial Intelligence A IComputerGovernmentHackerVideo GameCold WarFbiProsecution

iRank78

WarGames rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.1/10· 121K votes

Rotten Tomatoes93%

Metacritic77%

TMDb7.068/10· 2K votes

With 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.1/10 on IMDb and 77/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

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.