WarGames
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A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in WarGames:

Matthew Broderick
Dabney Coleman
John Wood
Ally Sheedy
Barry Corbin
Juanin Clay

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A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Can he convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing ?

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Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThere's not a scene here where Badham doesn't seem to know what he's doing, weaving a complex web of computerese, personalities and puzzles; the movie absorbs us on emotional and intellectual levels at the same time. And the ending, a moment of blinding and yet utterly elementary insight, is wonderful.
Variety - 9/10 by Variety StaffJohn Badham solders the pieces into a terrifically exciting story charged by an irresistible idea: an extra-smart kid can get the world into a whole lot of trouble that it also takes the same extra-smart kid to rescue it from.
Three Movie Buffs - 9/10 by Scott NashAlthough today it feels rather dated, especially with its technology, it is one of the better examples of the genre.
Christian Science Monitor - 9/10 by David SterrittIt's far too simplistic for comfort -- and downright dangerous if it makes anyone think today's self-destructive forces will bow jovially out of sight as soon as we grown-ups loosen up a little.
Washington Post - 9/10 by Rita KempleyWalter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker's script is tight, and Badham directs the whole thing with economy and pace but it's Matthew Broderick's film.
The A.V. Club - 9/10 by Noel MurrayBadham and company elide a lot of technical details of hacking, but the basics of the nascent computer culture still feel spot-on, right down to the body type and personalities of Eddie Deezen and Maury Chaykin, who play two of Broderick's techno-literate confederates (and work in Seattle, no less). More important is how WarGames plays up the contrast between teenagers—rebellious on the surface but conformist by nature—with a cynical adult world that has become convinced that nuclear annihilation might not be so bad.
CinePassion - 8/10 by Fernando F. CroceIn this sage satire, warfare is boiled down to the inanities of tic-tac-toe
Empire Magazine - 8/10 by Simon BraundBadham directs the whole thing with economy and pace.
Common Sense Media - 8/10 by Randy WhiteSuspenseful Cold War tale with teen gamer in control.
The Telegraph - 8/10 by Martin ChiltonThe chase sequences with government agents are tame but the film builds to a tense (and witty) conclusion at the Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker in Colorado Springs.

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