WarGames
1983
***½
Director: John Badham
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Barry Corbin, Juanin Clay, Michael Madsen, James Tolkan, Kent Williams
A high school student and computer whiz accidentally hacks into a U.S. military supercomputer, and initiate a series of events that threaten to lead to World War III. This Cold War thriller tells a gripping but not entirely plausible story set in the pre-Internet era. Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy are good is one of their first film roles.
