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WarGames (1983) [PG]

Release Date:
June 3, 1983

Original Title:
WarGames

Alternate Titles:
Jeux de guerre
Juegos de guerra
WarGames: Giochi di guerra
Воєнні ігри
Військові ігри
ウォー・ゲーム：1983

Genres:
Drama | Science Fiction | Thriller

Production Companies:
Leonard Goldberg Productions
MGM
Sherwood Productions
United Artists

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  DE: 12  DK: 11  ES: A  FR: TP  GB: PG  HU: 12  IE: PG  IT: T  NL: AL  NO: 12  PL: 12  PT: M/12  SE: 11  US: PG 

Runtime: 114

Is it a game, or is it real?

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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 Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

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Production

Art Direction:
James J. Murakami

Assistant Camera:
David E. Diano

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician:
Gerald Boatright

Assistant Director:
Robert J. Doherty

Assistant Editor:
Liz Randol

Assistant Property Master:
John M. Schenk

Camera Operator:
Steve Yaconelli

Casting:
Wallis Nicita

Chief Lighting Technician:
Doug Pentek

Color Timer:
Ray Martin

Construction Coordinator:
Robert Scaife

Continuity:
Harold Michelson

Costume Design:
Barry Francis Delaney

Dialogue Coach:
John Garber

Director:
John Badham

Director of Photography:
William A. Fraker

Editor:
Tom Rolf

Executive Producer:
Leonard Goldberg

First Assistant Director:
Newt Arnold

Hairstylist:
Lynda Gurasich

Key Grip:
Gary R. Dodd

Location Manager:
Robert Eggenweiler
Robert C. Decker

Makeup Artist:
Michael Germain
Brenda Todd

Music Editor:
Joe Tuley

Orchestrator:
Mark Hoder

Original Music Composer:
Arthur B. Rubinstein

Producer:
Richard Hashimoto
Harold Schneider

Production Coordinator:
Joy Anzarouth

Production Design:
Angelo P. Graham

Property Master:
Gregg H. Bilson

Screenplay:
Lawrence Lasker
Walter F. Parkes

Set Decoration:
Jerry Wunderlich

Sound Mixer:
Willie D. Burton

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Carlos Delarios
Michael J. Kohut
Aaron Rochin

Still Photographer:
Ralph Nelson Jr.

Stunt Coordinator:
Michael Adams

Stunt Double:
Marguerite Happy

Stunts:
Tom Elliott
Marguerite Happy
Al Jones
Rick Avery

Supervising Sound Effects Editor:
Milton C. Burrow
William L. Manger

Unit Publicist:
Lyla Foggia

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Michael L. Fink

Wardrobe Supervisor:
Ray Summers

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