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WarGames Showtime, 9 a.m.
“Shall we play a game?” Matthew Broderick stars in this fun and kind of frightening 1983 film as a young hacker who inadvertently accesses a military supercomputer that was originally programmed to predict possible outcomes of a nuclear war. When the hacker starts playing what he believes to be a nuclear war simulation computer game, the computer interprets it as reality and begins the process of starting World War III. WarGames is not some cheesy movie relic of the ’80s era of the Cold War; it remains a topnotch technothriller bolstered by a strong, Oscar-nominated screenplay, suspenseful direction from John Badham and great performances from Broderick, Ally Sheedy and Dabney Coleman.