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 Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

• Sherwood Productions
• United Artists
• Matthew Broderick
• Dabney Coleman
• John Wood
• Ally Sheedy
• Barry Corbin
• Juanin Clay
• Kent Williams
• Dennis Lipscomb