[…] Plot Summary: David (Matthew Broderick), a young hacker, along with his friend, Jennifer (Ally Sheedy) unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. David gets WOPR to run a nuclear war simulation, originally believing it to be a computer game. The simulation causes a nuclear missile scare and nearly starts World War III, not to mention …read more […]

Brad, thank you for the write up. My favorite pieces of this movie were always the Falken and David pieces. The look that Falken gives David when he asks "is there any way the computer can play itself" is perfect. He recognizes that David is the only person who's figure out a way to stop the system.