Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
The story
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.
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- computer
- government
- hacker
- video game
- cold war
- fbi
- prosecution
- norad
- nuclear threat
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Barry Corbin — General Beringer
- Juanin Clay — Pat Healy
- Kent Williams — Cabot
- Dennis Lipscomb — Watson
- Joe Dorsey — Conley
- Irving Metzman — Richter
- Michael Ensign — Beringer's Aide
- William Bogert — Mr. Lightman
- Susan Davis — Mrs. Lightman
- James Tolkan — Wigan
- David Clover — Stockman
- Directed
- John Badham
- Written
- Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 2,243 ratings
- Studio
- Sherwood Productions, United Artists
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1983 · You’re hereWarGames
Where it starts.
WarGames: The Dead Code
2008
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
