Release Date: 6/10/2008 Original Release: 1983 Format: DVD Length: 114 minutes Rating:PG (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 027616098764 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
Action/Adventure, Adventure, Nuclear Destruction, Suspense, Teenage, Thriller, War, Recommended, Theatrical Release, Family (General), Essential Cinema
Description
In director John Badham's WARGAMES, Matthew Broderick stars as David Lightman, a young hacker who accidentally logs on to the Department of Defense's network. Thinking that he's found a cool new computer game manufacturer, David plays checkers, chess, and other more intriguing games like Global Thermonuclear War. Realizing that their system has been tampered with, military operatives arrest him. However, the computer continues to play the "game" of thermonuclear warfare without David and generates the very real threat of World War III. In an attempt to prevent global disaster, David and his girlfriend, Jennifer (Ally Sheedy), search desperately for the scientist who designed the system before the goverment computer initates a full-scale nuclear war.
A landmark of 1980s cinema, WARGAMES was keenly tuned into its time. Computers remained a relative mystery in the early 1980s, as they were used primarily by large corporations and government agencies, but not by many individuals at home. The general public had already been warned of the danger of computer takeover in 1968 with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and this paranoia grew as computers became more popular. The threat of communist takeover and nuclear war loomed large in the collective consciousness, before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war. Video games had become highly popular, however, and for a generation of Pac-Man and Space Invaders players WARGAMES combined the country's deepest fears with its biggest fantasies. Badham's suspenseful film brings those fears to light in an exciting, fast-paced film with a great cast (Broderick, Sheedy, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Dabney Coleman) and excellent special effects.
DVD Features
2-Disc Set Region 1 NTSC Full Frame - 1.33 Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Mono - Spanish Stereo - English Disc 1: WARGAMES - Theatrical Presentation Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary: John Badham - Director; Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes - Screenwriters Disc 2: WARGAMES - Supplemental Material Additional Release Material: Featurette: 1. "Attack of the Hackers" 2. "Tic Tac Toe: A True Story" Documentary: 1. "Loading WarGames" 2. "Inside NORAD: Cold War Fortress" Trailers: 1. Sneak Peek at WARGAMES 2: THE DEAD CODE 2. Theatrical Trailer Interactive Features: Interactive Menues - Interactive Superpower Weapons Briefing Gallery
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