Title WarGames Overview High School student David Lightman Matthew Broderick 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 Ally Sheedy and a wizardly computer genius John Wood , David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon. Tagline Is it a game, or is it real? Genres Thriller, Science Fiction Keywords video game, artificial intelligence, fbi, cold war, hacker, prosecution, norad, government, computer, nuclear threat Production Companies United Artists, Sherwood Productions Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 114 Release Year 1983
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 80 million USD