War game 1983

Airman Art LaFleur Guard Brad David Vice Principal's Secretary Howie Allen Boy in Arcade Michael Adams Travis James Ackerman Joshua Jim Harriott Newscaster Tom Lawrence Sims Frances E. Visitor as Frances Nealy Charles Akins Major Ford Glenn Standifer Major Wenstin Edward Jahnke Picerni Jr. Technician Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Tory Christopher Arcade Kid uncredited Bob Harks High School Student uncredited William H.

Scientist uncredited Don Savage Rubinstein Cinematography by William A. Graham Art Direction by James J. Delaney costumes: men Makeup Department Michael Germain Wilcox Jr.

David Domeyer He himself lowered my rating by one. This film might not be so interesting for people, who aren't interested in computers, because, as I mentioned upper, the plot lacks some deeper crisis, but I thing that everyone else will like it, so if you match the upper criterion I can recommend you only one thing: Go and get it!

RebelMe Feb 6, FAQ Why does Jim tell David he programs his own password into every system he designs? It seems like Jim could get into serious trouble by doing that. What's the video game that David is playing at the arcade when he's late for school? Details Edit. Release date June 3, United States. United States. War Games. United Artists Sherwood Productions.

Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 54 minutes. Related news. May 31 The Guardian - Film News. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap.

By what name was WarGames officially released in India in English? See more gaps Learn more about contributing. In Seattle, teenager David is a lazy but bright teenager that prefers to hack and change his grades in the high-school computer than study.

One day, David's best friend Jennifer is with him and he decides to hack into toy company Protovision, seeking new games, and he accidentally connects the War Operation Plan Response system in a computer located at the North American Aerospace NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs, Colorado using the password Joshua that was the name of the son of its creator, the deceased scientist Stephen Falken.

Sign In. Edit WarGames Jump to: Summaries 4 Synopsis 1. The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». In his eyes, the end was nothing less than world domination, and he regularly quoted the words of Soviet leaders, from Lenin to Brezhnev, who had predicted the ultimate victory of world communism.

In his first press conference as president, Reagan described Soviet leaders as criminals, liars and cheats, claiming that they hid their real ambitions behind a language of peace and reconciliation. He would not be fooled by them. Everywhere he looked, Reagan saw the forces of communism advance in a plot orchestrated by the Kremlin.

After the humiliation of US withdrawal from the Vietnam War in , that country — along with neighbouring Cambodia and Laos — fell to the communists. In Africa, Cuban-backed guerrillas grew in numbers, and Angola and Mozambique fell to Soviet-backed regimes. Moscow further expanded its influence in Central America with the victory of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in After the Soviets invaded Afghanistan that year, Reagan came to believe that they also threatened Iran and the Middle East.

He thought that unless America took a stand it risked losing the Cold War. Reagan knew that the economy of the United States was fundamentally strong. The s witnessed the birth of a technological revolution that would transform society and create great wealth. This was what Reaganites believed free enterprise was about — enabling individuals to achieve their ambitions.

He was suspicious of big government, and believed that its role needed to be cut back, especially in areas such as health and welfare provision. So Reagan set out his stall: he aimed to defend freedom and democracy, and to lead the free world in a struggle against communism. He saw the conflict between democracy and communism as the battle between right and wrong, good and evil.

But neither Reagan nor his security and intelligence advisers had any idea of the impact of their words and deeds on Moscow. They carried on their anti-communist crusade without any sense of the panic they were generating in the Kremlin. Reagan believed, with the strength of a religious faith, that the Soviet system was deeply flawed — so many resources were allocated to military expenditure, while low priority was given to the manufacture of consumer goods or the welfare of the population.

In the Soviet Union, as he saw it, people did not matter and human rights meant nothing, because all efforts were devoted to building the strength of the state. His aim was to bring about this collapse as soon as possible.

In this tense, febrile atmosphere, Nato began the exercise codenamed Able Archer In this communications war game, an imaginary conventional war against Warsaw Pact forces [the Soviet Union and seven satellite states] went wrong, leading Nato commanders to request permission to escalate the conflict and deploy nuclear weapons against a major Soviet Union target.

In the war game, permission to use nuclear weapons came on 9 November.