<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $12 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $79.6 million </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), 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 . </P> <P> The film was a box office success, costing $12 million and grossing $79 million after five months in the United States and Canada . The film was nominated for three Academy Awards . A sequel, WarGames: The Dead Code, was released direct to DVD in 2008 . </P>

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