War Games | 
| Director: John Badham
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, John Wood, Dabney Coleman, Barry Corbin
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 13439
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 907056
ISBN: 0792838467
UPC: 027616705624
EAN: 9780792838463
ASIN: 0792838467
Theatrical Release Date: June 3, 1983
Release Date: April 29, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
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.
Amazon.com
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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 141 more reviews...
 one of the first computer hacker movies June 6, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
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.
 WarGames April 19, 2009
Juana M. Caballero (orange county, ca)
Order was received within a few days of ordering. The DVD was in excellent condition and plays very good. I would definitely order from this person again. Thank you
It's stood up well April 13, 2009
D. Thomas Longo Jr. (Delmar, MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The last time I saw this movie must have been at least 20 years ago, i.e. still during the real Cold War. I saw it recently again out of curiosity and it's stood up well. How to explain those tens of thousands of U.S. and Soviet nuclear warheads on hair triggers to youngers who have no personal recollections of those times? If you lived during those times and/or served in the military then, you knew that hair-triggerism was damn real. When toward the end of the movie the war room screens go wild with their portrayals of the thermonuclear strikes, my blood did run cold. Yeah it's only a movie but yeah too, the means then were such that it could have happened.
On the lighter side, 20 years ago I knew squat about computers. DOS was Boss and utterly alien to me; I began to get my feet wet with Windows 3.0 around 1992 at 50 years of age. It was fun to see in the movie the relatively primitive state of home computers and even mainframes. Monochrome CRT screens? Dot-matrix printers? REAL floppy disks? Quaint.
 Muy buena pelicula March 26, 2009
C. CHACIN
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Una pelicula que muestra mucho de la tecnologia de vanguardia que actualmente tenemos,es buena para recordar como han evolucionados los sistemas, buena tematica. saludos.
War Games January 8, 2009
James C. Hilton (Colorado Springs, Co, USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good movie.
My wife and I have enjoyed this movie very much.
Jim
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