WarGames

Seattle, rainy night, dial-up tones. A high school computer lab, a hacked mainframe, and a chess game with a military computer. Badham brings Cold War anxieties into the home.

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John Badham directed WarGames in 1983. See John Badham's full filmography, where to start with John Badham, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Badham.

WarGames was released in 1983 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 114 minutes.