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Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in Wargames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. Wargames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Features
Audio Commentary from Director John Badham and Writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter Parkes
Art Director - James Murakami
Associate Producer - Richard Hashimoto
Casting - Wallis Nicita
Cinematographer - William A. Fraker
Composer (Music Score) - Arthur B. Rubinstein
Costume Designer - Barry Delaney
Costume Designer - Linda Matthews
Executive Producer - Leonard J. Goldberg
Production Designer - Angelo P. Graham
Production Designer - Richard Hashimoto
Sound/Sound Designer - Willie D. Burton
Special Effects - Joe di Gaetano III
Special Effects - R.J. Hohman
Stunts - Tom Elliott
Stunts - Al Jones
Made at a time when public perception of computers' abilities far exceeded their actual potential, Wargames benefited greatly from the mass confusion inherent in the onset of the home-computing movement. But it's also a relic of its era in other ways as well, tapping into a fresh vein of Cold War anxiety that arrived with the Reagan administration's new concentration on the arms race. As much as the first factor dates it and the second factor may alienate viewers who came of age after the fall of the Iron Curtain, neither element prevents director John Badham's film from still playing like a skillfully put together thriller. Though preachy (especially in its peacenik finale), from its first scene Wargames establishes a tense mood undercut only by some jokey teen banter. It's not hard to see why the film has become a cult piece among hackers -- short of time travel, there's probably no better place to find as much antiquated hardware and outdated technical jargon -- but its virtues extend beyond techno-kitsch. ~ Keith Phipps, Rovi
Willie D. Burton : Best Sound - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1983
William a. Fraker : Best Cinematography - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
Lawrence Lasker : Best Original Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
Walter Parkes : Best Original Screenplay - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
Willie D. Burton : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
Carlos Delarios : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
Michael J. Kohut : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
Aaron Rochin : Best Sound - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1983
