Summer Wars

Teenage math prodigy Kenji gets hired for a summer gig pretending to be his crush’s fiancé at her family’s birthday reunion. His equation-solving accidentally lets an AI loose in the real world. A brainy teen and a 90-year-old matriarch team up to stop it.

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Summer Wars was released in 2009 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 114 minutes.