WarGames

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.

• artificial intelligence (a.i.)
• computer
• government
• hacker
• video game
• cold war
• fbi
• prosecution
• norad
• nuclear threat
• paranoid
• political thriller
• cyber thriller
• tense
• hopeful