WarGames Movie (1983) Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy

WarGames Movie (1983) Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy

WarGames Movie Trailer HD (1983) - Plot synopsis: A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.

Genre: Science-Fiction / Thriller Director: John Badham Writers: Lawrence Lasker, Walter F.

Parkes, Walon Green Stars: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood 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, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy.

The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses War Operation Plan Response (WOPR), a United States military supercomputer originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war.

Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a computer game.

The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start World War III.

The film was a box-office success, costing $12 million and grossing $79 million, 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-video in 2008.