WarGames is a 1983 … 19th century . 20th century . 21st century … drama A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena-thriller film Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham John MacDonald Badham is an American film director. The film starred Matthew Broderick in his second major film role, and featured Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman Dabney Wharton Coleman is an American actor. He is best known for his abrasive characters and his always present mustache, John Wood, and Barry Corbin Leonard Barrie "Barry" Corbin is an American actor with more than one hundred film, television and video game credits.
The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker In common usage, a hacker is a person who breaks into computers, usually by gaining access to administrative controls. The subculture that has evolved around hackers is often referred to as the computer underground. Proponents claim to be motivated by artistic and political ends, and are often unconcerned about the use of illegal means to achieve who unwittingly hacks into WOPR WOPR is a fictional military computer featured in the movie and novel WarGames. It is acronym for War Operation Plan Response, a United States military supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation , and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research. He then took over the programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict in which nuclear weapons are used. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare is vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage. A major nuclear exchange could have severe long-term effects, primarily from radiation release but also from possible atmospheric pollution leading. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The simulation causes a national nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III This war was anticipated and planned for by military and civil authorities, and explored in fiction in many countries. Concepts ranged from limited use of atomic weapons, to destruction of the planet.
The movie was a box office success, costing US$ The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents (200 half-cents prior to 1857)12 million but grossing over $74 million after five months in the United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards. A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD A film that is released direct-to-video is one which has been released to the public on home video formats (historically VHS) before or without being released in movie theaters or broadcast on television. The term is also at times used as a derogatory term for films or sequels of films that are not expected to have financial success. They have on July 29, 2008.
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