Those meddling kids

Here is a double feature about the random element that spoils the dreams of our national defense planners; teenagers. The recommendation is first from 1983, "War Games" followed by, from 1986, "The Manhattan Project". For all those who never got to be directly involved in the cold war and wanted to be.

"War Games" stars Matthew Broderick as David Lightman a teen whose computer skills get him in hot water when he uses them in the search for unreleased games.

"The Manhattan Project" stars Christopher Collet as a teen whose interest in the atomic bomb gets him in hot water.

Both movies have plots that turn on what a bright and inquisitive young mind can accomplish.