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.
~ Is it a game, or is it real?StatusReleased: 41 years ago
June 3, 1983
LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish
Budget$12.0M
Revenue$124.6M