It was a widespread critical and commercial success, grossing $125 million worldwide against a $12 million budget. The film premiered at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, and was released by MGM/UA Entertainment on June 3, 1983. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III.
Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy. WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F.
