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 Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Genres: Drama , Science Fiction , Thriller
Keywords: artificial-intelligence-a-i , cold-war , computer , cyber-thriller , fbi , government , hacker , hopeful , norad , nuclear-threat , paranoid , political-thriller , prosecution , tense , video-game