WarGames

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Year:1983
Director:John Badham
Written by:Lawrence Lasker (Screenplay), Walter F. Parkes (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions! Together with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
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