

- Director
- John Badham
- Year
- 1983
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Rated
- PG
- Release
- 1983
- Language
- en
- Country
- US
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01 · Overview
What it’s about
The story
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
- #hopeful
- #cold war
- #computer
- #prosecution
- #tense
- #nuclear threat
- #hacker
- #paranoid
- #government
- #artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- #political drama
- #cyber thriller
Directed by
John Badham
Written by
Lawrence Lasker & Walter F. Parkes
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