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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 3566
Released: July 29, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action, suspense and high-tech adventures! Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin, WarGames is "brilliant...funny...and provocative" (New York)a fast-paced cyber-thriller. Computer hacker David Lightman (Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and mastereven the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportionsWorld War III! Together with his girlfriend (Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (Tony AwardÂ(r) winner John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Description of War Games (25th Anniversary Edition):
Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Kids still like this movie, though. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, director commentary, optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh
War Games (25th Anniversary Edition) Reviews:
25 years later... 
2009-12-10 - This movie is about a British operative named only "Joshua" who communicates with a high school student and his girlfriend over the internet. Security is compromised and Joshua forces the young couple into a deadly game of chess creating a lot of confusion for American military brass.
Excellent! 
2009-09-19 - This movie is a classic and a must have for any 80's movie buff. Matthew Broderick is brillant and the special features on the DVD are wonderful. Lots of cast interviews and behind the scenes extras.
War Games Review 
2009-09-04 - Great movie, we love it. And since we have it on VHS and our VHS player broke we wanted to find it on DVD and when I found it at Amazon.com I had to get it.
Still a great movie
2009-08-31 - CD arrived as promised. This movie takes you back, with all the 'high tech' references, but it still holds together after 25 years.
one of the first computer hacker movies 
2009-06-06 - As unlikely as it seems a young high school computer hacker
logs into a government super computer that controls
ICBM launching across the United Stated.
The resulting trouble almost causes WWIII with Russia
when the AI in control of the super computer wants to play games.
Tron (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
, Sneakers (Collector's Edition) and Hackers are some of the movies Hollywood has made to exploit this gold mine of the personal computer.
