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WarGames (1983)

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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.

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Awards

Nominated for 3 Oscars.

Another 4 wins & 11 nominations.

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User Reviews
6 February 2006 | RebelMe
8
| Pleased with the film
If you want to see a film with the most real style of hacking, forget Swordfish, The Net and all these other films where "hackers" work in graphically superb programs and can hack government server in few seconds. Broderick, working in his text-only mode, using social-engineering and having good abilities handling primitive electric devices is nearest the real world's "hacking", at least in his period.

As thought that the film sometimes lacks tension, especially in the middle, it has its very strong moments. To be honest, I got most excited on the very beginning, I really loved it.

The performances are good, but I disliked and didn't believe the performance of the man, who should have played the wooden-head general. It seemed to be too overacted. He himself lowered my rating by one.

This film might not be so interesting for people, who aren't interested in computers, because, as I mentioned upper, the plot lacks some deeper crisis, but I thing that everyone else will like it, so if you match the upper criterion I can recommend you only one thing: Go and get it!

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Trivia

Sheedy and Badham would work together again in Maid to Order in 1987; also in Short Circuit in 1986.

Quotes

Joshua: Which side do you want?
David Lightman: I'll be the Russians.

Goofs

During the missile-launch scene, the captain writes down the first part of the launch code wrong. The radio message reads out, "Romeo-Oscar-November-Charlie-Tango-Tango-Lima-Alpha," which is phonetic alphabet for R-O-N-C-T-T-L-A, but the captain writes down what looks like R-O-N-C-T-T-A-A - the first "A" is actually an "L," the captain's handwriting makes it look like an "A."

Alternate Versions

In the premiere telecast version of the film, in the scene where the female airmen is counting down to Impact, there is more background music that plays than in the theatrical version and home video releases containing English language versions. However, the extra background music plays in foreign versions of the movie. Also, the extra BGM has not played in subsequent TV airings since that first telecast, as far as I am aware.

Soundtracks

Video Fever
Performed by Arthur B. Rubinstein, Cynthia Morrow, Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli (as The Beepers)
Lyrics by Cynthia Morrow
Music by Arthur B. Rubinstein
Produced by Anthony Marinelli (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

Synopsis (WARNING: Spoilers)

Genres

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Details

Release Date:

3 June 1983

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Culver City, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,227,804 5 June 1983

Gross USA:

$79,567,667

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$79,567,667

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