Cinematic background from WarGames 1983 - 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 Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

WarGames

1983

Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Directors:
John Badham
Writers:
Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, Walon Green
Official poster of WarGames 1983 directed by John Badham