Overview
High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Details
- Director
- John Badham
- Writer
- Walter F. Parkes
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $12,000,000
Cast
Ally Sheedy
Barry Corbin
Dabney Coleman
Dennis Lipscomb
Irving Metzman
Joe Dorsey
John Wood
Juanin Clay
Kent Williams
Matthew Broderick
Keywords
artificial intelligence (a.i.)
cold war
computer
fbi
government
hacker
hopeful
norad
nuclear threat
paranoid
prosecution
tense
video game
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