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WarGames (1983)

Director: John Badham

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From Time Out Film Guide

'Or How We Learned to Stop Worrying, Because Nuclear Brinksmanship Is as Simple as Tick-Tack-Toe.' Badham's movie was one of the first to pick up on home computer power - with schoolboy whiz Broderick hacking into his school files, and later chancing across a new 'game': Global Thermonuclear War. The first half has a sardonic edge to it, but the more seriously the movie takes itself the sillier it gets.

Author: TCh

Time Out Film Guide

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WarGames

Cast & crew

Director: John Badham

Producer: Harold Schneider

Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay, Dennis Lipscomb full cast

Duration: 113 mins

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