Wargames

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Is it a game, or is it real?
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 113 mins
Retail Price: £9.99
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Synopsis:
Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action, suspense and high-tech adventures. Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin, WarGames is “brilliant...funny...and provocative” (New York)--a fast-paced cyber-thriller.

Computer hacker David Lightman (Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and master even the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defence Department’s war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportions--World War III. Together with his girlfriend (Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

Special Features:
Feature length audio commentary by director John Badham and writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
Original Theatrical Trailer
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Video Tracks:
1.85:1 widescreen 1080p

Audio Tracks:
DTS-HD 5.1 MA Surround English
DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono French
DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono Italian
DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono German
DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono Spanish

Subtitle Tracks:
French
CC: German
Italian
Swedish
English
Spanish
German
CC: English
Portuguese
Dutch
Danish
Norwegian

Directed By:
John Badham

Written By:


Starring:
Barry Corbin
Ally Sheedy
John Wood
Dabney Coleman
Matthew Broderick

Casting By:
Wallis Nicita

Soundtrack By:
Arthur B. Rubinstein

Director of Photography:
William A. Fraker

Editor:
Tom Rolf

Costume Designer:
Barry Francis Delaney

Production Designer:
Angelo P. Graham

Producer:
Harold Schneider
Richard Hashimoto

Executive Producer:
Leonard Goldberg

Distributor:
Twentieth Century Fox

Your Opinions and Comments

9 / 10
The idea of launching a nuclear strike as a result of a simulation has a lot of basis in reality, so I've been reading here:
http://gizmodo.com/the-computer-simulation-that-almost-started-world-war-i-1686123550
posted by RJS on 25/2/2015 12:47