WAR GAMES 1983 ORIGINAL AUTHENTIC 27X41 NEAR MINT MOVIE POSTER BRODERICK SHEEDY

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Original National Screen Service  NSS Litho
Folded flat as distributed by National Screen Service for MGM
Never hung or displayed. Like new, near mint condition. No smells, mold, etc
No rips, tears, holes or age damage. No edge fraying, ever so slight broken ink from folding machine
Poster is NOT
A "REPRINT", "REPRODUCTION" or "
PRINT
".
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL ONE SHEET PRODUCED BY AND DISTRIBUTED BY NSS (National Screen Services) and the STUDIO TO BE DISPLAYED IN THE THEATERS and for
promotion only
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
.
The film was a box-office success, costing  million and grossing  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-video
in 2008.
WarGames
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
John Badham
Produced by
Leonard Goldberg
Richard Hashimoto
Harold Schneider
Bruce McNall
Written by
Lawrence Lasker
Walter F. Parkes
Starring
Matthew Broderick
Dabney Coleman
John Wood
Ally Sheedy
Music by
Arthur B. Rubinstein
Cinematography
William A. Fraker
Edited by
Tom Rolf
Production
company
United Artists
Sherwood Productions
Distributed by
MGM/UA Entertainment Company
Release date
May 7, 1983 (
Cannes
)
June 3, 1983 (United States)
Running time
114 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
 million
Box office
.6 million