WarGames

Is it a game, or is it real?

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Podcast Release Date:
Feb 14, 2025

Hacker Movies Series Episode 1

Ferris Bueller’s Day After

Matthew Broderick logs into a high-security military base to find the next Galaga and winds up playing WarGames with A.I. capable of global thermonuclear annihilation. Can the geeky teen and girlfriend Ally Sheedy (Breakfast Club) track down the creator of this doomsday device and fix the faulty programming before Dabney Coleman (9 To 5) and the clueless military brass escalate things to Defcon One?  Arnie, Stuart, and Justin take you behind Hollywood’s firewall to access cinema’s biggest hacker films when you register as a donating Now Playing user. 

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Movie Details

Series
Hacker Movies
Director
John Badham
Runtime
1 h 54 min
Release Date
3 June 1983
Genres
Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama
Overview
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 Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

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