Matthew Broderick stars as a teen who hacks into a Department of Defense computer system and thinks he is playing a war game when he is actually almost causing a nuclear war. Ally Sheedy is the girlfriend. Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster give the most outstanding performances of their careers in this film about a Texas oil firm's surreptitious plans to develop a port and refinery in a Scottish seaside village and what happens to that plan. Riegert is great as the conflicted advance man. Lancaster is remarkable as the distracted, dreamy owner of the oil company, who literally has his head in the sky.
Great scenes abound.
The apotheosis of the returnable bottle. Noble savage encounters less than noble civilized folks on his way to the edge of the earth to dispose of some disruptive technology. Currently out of print. Look for it in your video rental store or public library. The first few minutes of the film are an excellent time capsule of the early days of electronic gadgetry, and satire on its ubiquity.