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    Unique ID Code: 0000160131
    Added by: Jitendar Canth
    Added on: 22/12/2013 17:19
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    Wargames

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    Is it a game, or is it real?
    Certificate: 12
    Running Time: 113 mins
    Retail Price: £9.99
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    Synopsis:
    Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) star in this compelling drama filled with action, suspense and high-tech adventures. Featuring superb performances by Dabney Coleman and Barry Corbin, WarGames is “brilliant...funny...and provocative” (New York)--a fast-paced cyber-thriller.

    Computer hacker David Lightman (Broderick) can bypass the most advanced security systems, break the most intricate secret codes and master even the most difficult computer games. But when he unwittingly taps into the Defence Department’s war computer, he initiates a confrontation of global proportions--World War III. Together with his girlfriend (Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

    Special Features:
    Feature length audio commentary by director John Badham and writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes
    Original Theatrical Trailer
    Loading Wargames
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    Inside Norad: Cold War Fortress
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    Video Tracks:
    1.85:1 widescreen 1080p

    Audio Tracks:
    DTS-HD 5.1 MA Surround English
    DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono French
    DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono Italian
    DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono German
    DTS-HD MA 1.0 Mono Spanish

    Subtitle Tracks:
    French
    CC: German
    Italian
    Swedish
    English
    Spanish
    German
    CC: English
    Portuguese
    Dutch
    Danish
    Norwegian

    Directed By:
    John Badham

    Written By:


    Starring:
    Barry Corbin
    Ally Sheedy
    John Wood
    Dabney Coleman
    Matthew Broderick

    Casting By:
    Wallis Nicita

    Soundtrack By:
    Arthur B. Rubinstein

    Director of Photography:
    William A. Fraker

    Editor:
    Tom Rolf

    Costume Designer:
    Barry Francis Delaney

    Production Designer:
    Angelo P. Graham

    Producer:
    Harold Schneider
    Richard Hashimoto

    Executive Producer:
    Leonard Goldberg

    Distributor:
    Twentieth Century Fox

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    9 / 10
    The idea of launching a nuclear strike as a result of a simulation has a lot of basis in reality, so I've been reading here:
    http://gizmodo.com/the-computer-simulation-that-almost-started-world-war-i-1686123550
    posted by RJS on 25/2/2015 12:47