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WarGames (1983) El Segundo High School
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The high school used in the movie was here at El Segundo High School.
Description
WarGames
WarGames
is a 1983 American
Cold War
science fiction film
written by
Lawrence Lasker
and
Walter F. Parkes
and directed by
John Badham
. The film stars
Matthew Broderick
,
Dabney Coleman
,
John Wood
, and
Ally Sheedy
. The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young
hacker
who unwittingly accesses War Operation Plan Response (WOPR), a United States military
supercomputer
originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of
nuclear war
. Lightman gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, believing it to be a
computer game
. The computer, now tied into the nuclear weapons control system and unable to tell the difference between simulation and reality, attempts to start
World War III
.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
http://www.themoviedistrict.com/wargames/
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