Part delightfully tense techno-thriller, part refreshingly unpatronizing teen drama, WarGames is one of the more inventive -- and genuinely suspenseful -- Cold War movies of the 1980s.
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Movie Info
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Director -
John Badham -
Producer -
Harold Schneider -
Screenwriter -
Lawrence Lasker , Walter F. Parkes -
Distributor -
MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc. , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. -
Production Co -
Metro Goldwyn Mayer -
Rating -
PG -
Genre -
Mystery & Thriller , Action , Drama , Sci-Fi -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Jun 3, 1983, Original -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Mar 29, 2016 -
Runtime -
1h 53m -
Sound Mix -
Surround