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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Suitable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1983 DVD Release: 04/29/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 53 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Thriller, Teen Movie, Psychological Thriller, Paranoid Thriller See Also: Wargames [25th Anniversary Edition]

Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. WarGames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Matthew Broderick - David
Dabney Coleman - McKittrick
John Wood - Falken
Ally Sheedy - Jennifer
Barry Corbin - Gen. Beringer

WarGames was a hit film in 1983 that has become a harbinger of the future, and the MGM DVD, like the movie, contains several features that make it hard to resist. WarGames is the tale of a computer run amok; the movie stars a prepubescent Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, and Ally Sheedy. Today, with modems prevalent and computers running everything from coffee makers to automobiles, the idea of an intelligent computer using the telephone to create havoc doesn't seem so far-fetched. The DVD features an audio commentary by director John Badham and writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes that frequently makes the same point: what was science fiction then has become commonplace today. The DVD has a new Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack that amplifies the creepy booming undertones that the filmmakers use to indicate the computer is working independently. Trivia, production notes, and the original theatrical trailer complete the special features. ~ Russell Roberts, All Movie Guide