War Games
by John Badham
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Actor: Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Matthew BroderickDirector: John Badham
Brand: BRODERICK,MATTHEW
Producer: Bruce McNall
Producer: Harold Schneider
Producer: Leonard Goldberg
Producer: Richard Hashimoto
Writer: Lawrence Lasker
Writer: Walon Green
Writer: Walter F. Parkes
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-04-29
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of War Games
DVD Review: 25 years later...
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie is about a British operative named only "Joshua" who communicates with a high school student and his girlfriend over the internet. Security is compromised and Joshua forces the young couple into a deadly game of chess creating a lot of confusion for American military brass. DVD Review: Excellent!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is a classic and a must have for any 80's movie buff. Matthew Broderick is brillant and the special features on the DVD are wonderful. Lots of cast interviews and behind the scenes extras.DVD Review: War Games Review
Summary: 5 Stars
Great movie, we love it. And since we have it on VHS and our VHS player broke we wanted to find it on DVD and when I found it at Amazon.com I had to get it.DVD Review: Still a great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
CD arrived as promised. This movie takes you back, with all the 'high tech' references, but it still holds together after 25 years.DVD Review: one of the first computer hacker movies
Summary: 3 Stars
As unlikely as it seems a young high school computer hacker
logs into a government super computer that controls
ICBM launching across the United Stated.
The resulting trouble almost causes WWIII with Russia
when the AI in control of the super computer wants to play games.
Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
, Sneakers (Collector's Edition) and Hackers are some of the movies Hollywood has made to exploit this gold mine of the personal computer.
Description of War Games
Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action, suspense and high-tech adventures! Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin, WarGames is "brilliant...funny...and provocative" (New York)a fast-paced cyber-thriller. Computer hacker David Lightman (Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and mastereven the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportionsWorld War III! Together with his girlfriend (Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (Tony Award?(r) winner John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Kids still like this movie, though. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, director commentary, optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
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