WarGames

Movie • 1983 • Thriller  

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High School student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) 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 (Ally Sheedy) and a wizardly computer genius (John Wood), David must race against time to outwit his opponent...and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
This movie contains 5 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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There is a dog named Bo & he does not die
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is an animal sad?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Aybabtu
Except the backdoor in WOPR/Joshua.
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Assault
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A woman’s coworker keeps getting physically close to her, touching her chest, and harassing her at work and we hear her repeatedly tell them to stop and go away
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Aybabtu
It is mentioned, that Steven Falken's son (and wife) died in a car crash.
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Family
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Aybabtu
But David is pulled into a van by the feds.
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Does a parent die?
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huviks
No, although it's mentioned that Falken's wife (presumably the mother of his son) died
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Does someone cheat?
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huviks
Nobody is unfaithful
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there clowns?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone vomit?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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There is a little hospital room where David is captured.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Tffr
There are a lot of stressful situations where people are nervous, sweating, etc
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Tffr
Main character crawls through a small space kind of like a ventilation shaft
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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There is an autistic character and a co-worker speaks to him roughly. They seem to be friends but this could be triggering to folks.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Near the end of the movie
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Pregnancy
Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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Aybabtu
McKittrick insults General Beringer.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there n-words?
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Sex
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Sandphin
Some workplace sexual harassment takes place at the military base.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
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Aybabtu
Not for real, only in a simulation.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Does someone drown?
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Aybabtu
In the first scene someone is forced to flip the switch by a gun. But there is no shooting.
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