Believing he has hacked into a video game software company, he challenges the computer to a game of 'Global Thermonuclear War.' This launches no real missiles on the Russian side, but it plays hell with said computer opponent, WOPR, the US military's computerized missile-detection and launch system.
A 1983 Cold War sci-fi thriller directed by John Badham, starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, and Barry Corbin.ĭavid Lightman (Broderick) is a teenaged Playful Hacker from Seattle who nearly sets World War III into motion by playing a game with a computer that doesn't know the difference between games and reality.
