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Mood:
- CleverSuspensefulCaptivating
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Plot:
- Young HeroesMan Versus MachineRace Against TimeTechnology Gone AwryComputers and WebChases and RacesDangerHeroes more...
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Genres:
- ThrillerDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- SeattleUSAMilitary Base
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Audience:
- Teens
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterCritically Acclaimed
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- SeriousRealisticFast
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- Special Effects
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- Mild Violent Content
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WarGames, 1983
English
USA
Profile of WarGames
The mood of WarGames is clever, suspenseful, and captivating. The plot centers around computers and the web, man versus machine, and chaos. It is a thriller and drama movie. In approach, WarGames is serious and realistic. The pacing is fast. It takes place, at least partly, on a military base. WarGames is set in Seattle. It happens in the 1980s. Visually, it involves special effects. WarGames is known for being a blockbuster, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. It is especially suggested for teens. Note that it includes mild violent content.
Summary of WarGames
In director John Badham's WARGAMES, Matthew Broderick stars as David Lightman, a young hacker who accidentally logs on to the Department of Defense's network. Thinking that he's found a cool new computer game manufacturer, David plays checkers, chess, and other more intriguing games like Global Thermonuclear War. Realizing that their system has been tampered with, military operatives arrest him. However, the computer continues to play the "game" of thermonuclear warfare without David and generates the very real threat of World War III. In an attempt to prevent global disaster, David and his girlfriend, Jennifer (Ally Sheedy), search desperately for the scientist who designed the system before the goverment computer initates a full-scale nuclear war.
A landmark of 1980s cinema, WARGAMES was keenly tuned into its time. Computers remained a relative mystery in the early 1980s, as they were used primarily by large corporations and government agencies, but not by many individuals at home. The general public had already been warned of the danger of computer takeover in 1968 with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and this paranoia grew as computers became more popular. The threat of communist takeover and nuclear war loomed large in the collective consciousness, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war. Video games had become highly popular, however, and for a generation of Pac-Man and Space Invaders players WARGAMES combined the country's deepest fears with its biggest fantasies. Badham's suspenseful film brings those fears to light in an exciting, fast-paced film with a great cast (Broderick, Sheedy, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Dabney Coleman) and excellent special effects.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 3 June 1983 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
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as David Lightman
as Dr. John McKittrick
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