High school kid David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) is into computers. He hacks into a military computer looking for fun video games to play, and inadvertantly brings the United States to the brink of nuclear destruction by starting World War III.

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This is the film version of a hit Broadway musical that was based on a Mel Brooks film: an inverted, laughable situation that unfortunately, this film never touches on. The basic gist is that Broadway producers Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) and Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick) strive to stage a play so terrible that it’s a guaranteed flop - allowing them to run off with the investor’s money. Could this business model be applied to a Silicon Valley startup? Never mind.

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The Stepford Wives starring Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick is a real time waster of a movie, even as a rental. I chalk it up to a lack of guts.

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