War games 1983 trailer

Joshua : A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? Sign In. Play trailer Action Drama Sci-Fi. Director John Badham. Lawrence Lasker Walter F. Parkes Walon Green uncredited. Top credits Director John Badham. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Clip What to Watch: Back to the '80s on Prime Video. Photos Top cast Edit. Matthew Broderick David as David. Ally Sheedy Jennifer as Jennifer. John Wood Falken as Falken.

Kent Williams Cabot as Cabot. Dennis Lipscomb Watson as Watson. Joe Dorsey Conley as Conley. Irving Metzman Richter as Richter. William Bogert Mr. Lightman as Mr. Susan Davis Mrs. Lightman as Mrs. James Tolkan Wigan as Wigan. David Clover Stockman as Stockman. Drew Snyder Ayers as Ayers. John Badham. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top secret super-computer which has complete control over the U.

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? Action Drama Sci-Fi Thriller. Did you know Edit. The producers were not allowed into the actual NORAD command center, so they had to imagine what it was like.

The escort asks a woman with a camera around her neck to sit in the command chair. David and Jennifer soon realize that what they are doing is not a game when news of simulated attacks on the US, exactly the type David and Jennifer plotted in the "game", hits the media.

David believes he's in even more trouble when Joshua calls him back, still playing the game, with its ultimate goal of winning. WOPR or Joshua, in playing the game, is still simulating Soviet attacks on the US, which Beringer believes to be real and who orders appropriate responses against the Soviets. As the authorities close in on David, with people like McKittrick believing him to be a spy, David tries to enlist the help of the one person who knows Joshua's end goal and can probably stop Joshua from achieving that goal, while he needs to elude capture by the authorities.

In Seattle, teenager David is a lazy but bright teenager that prefers to hack and change his grades in the high-school computer than study. One day, David's best friend Jennifer is with him and he decides to hack into toy company Protovision, seeking new games, and he accidentally connects the War Operation Plan Response system in a computer located at the North American Aerospace NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado using the password Joshua that was the name of the son of its creator, the deceased scientist Stephen Falken.

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