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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304112267
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 6304112262
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalog
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: August 13, 1996
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 1983




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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Cute but silly, this 1983 cautionary fantasy stars Matthew Broderick as a teenage computer genius who hacks into the Pentagon's defense system and sets World War III into motion. All the fun is in the film's set-up, as Broderick befriends Ally Sheedy and starts the international crisis by pretending while online to be the Soviet Union. After that, it's not hard to predict what's going to happen: government agents swoop in, but the story ends up in the "hands" of machines talking to one another. Thus we're stuck with flashing lights, etc. John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) directs in strict potboiler mode. Kids still like this movie, though. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, theatrical trailer, Dolby sound, director commentary, optional English, French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - wargames
fantastic, great condition and price. quick delivery and great movie.
recommend them to anyone purchasing a product. i will certaintly be looking for them in future purchases.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - It could have happened
War Games with Matthew Broderick. Interesting to see what computers & floppys looked like when this picture was filmed. The real Brainiac, if properly programmed, might just as easily started the countdown.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An Engaging Little Tale About Nuclear War
In this quintessentially 1980s movie (it co-stars Dabney Coleman, so that pretty much qualifies it right there), a young computer-hacker (played by a very young Matthew Broderick) accidentally hacks into the U.S. defense missile control center (while trying to forge his high school grades!) and initiates a game of "war" with a supercomputer that is used to formulate possible outcomes of thermonuclear war with Russia. Broderick's character initially plays the "side" of Russia, prompting the computer to be the U.S. and eventually push the real military generals to the brink of starting an actual war based on the faulty information the computer is giving them.

I won't spoil the end of the film here, but suffice it to say that it is, at the very least, an interesting little morality lesson on nuclear proliferation and mutually-assured destruction. I began watching this movie at home on my couch one morning I was off from work and got hooked, ending up watching it to its conclusion. ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - War Games
An older movie starring a young Matthew Broderick. A boy decides to get into a hidden spot on the computer and taps into the military computers. When he starts to play this game, the computer thinks it is real.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - (In early 80's computer voice!) SHALL WE PLAY A GAME???
Classic 80's movie with a brand new 25th Anniversary Ed. DVD!!! Great transfer of this classic film with great sound and a nice heaping of extras!!! Thanks MGM Home Entertainment!!! A worthy upgrade from the original DVD release from the late 90's A+ Classic stuff indeed!!!




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