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












3rd June 1983
43 years ago
1 hour 54 minutes
Finishes at 8:21am
$12,000,000 ($39,990,000 today)
Revenue $124,600,000



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