WAR GAME
A real-life political thriller set on January 6, 2025, WAR GAME imagines a nation-wide insurrection in which members of the US military defect to support the losing Presidential candidate, while the winning candidate and his advisors—played by an all-star roster of senior officials from the last five administrations—war game the crisis in the White House situation room.
SHOWTIMES
SEPT 27 | FRI
7:05 p.m.
SEPT 28 | SAT
12:50, 5:00 p.m.
SEPT 29 | SUN
2:55, 7:05 p.m.
SEPT 30 | MON
5:00 p.m.
OCT 1 | TUE
7:05 p.m.
OCT 2 | WED
5:00 p.m.
OCT 3 | THU
7:05 p.m.
SYNOPSIS
War Game sweeps audiences into an elaborate future-set simulation that dramatically escalates the threat posed by the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The film follows a bipartisan group of US defense, intelligence, and elected policymakers spanning five presidential administrations as they participate in an unscripted role-play exercise. Portraying a fictional President of the United States and his advisors, they confront a political coup backed by rogue members of the US military in the wake of a contested 2024 presidential election. Like actors in a thriller, but with profound real-world stakes, the players have only six hours to save American democracy.
Director
Tony Gerber, Jesse Moss
WITH
Run Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Released
August 2, 2024
Distributed by
Submarine Deluxe
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Country
SUBTITLES
None
NOT RATED
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REVIEWS
“War Game is blunt and effective. It’s easy to get swept up by the ticktock storytelling, and to be moved both by the recent history it invokes and by the sincerity of its participants.”
“War Game serves as a warning that if history repeats itself, the difference between doing so as farce or tragedy rests on a knife’s edge.”
“Moss and Gerber clearly understand that the ticktock of this hypothetical insurgency will make for exciting cinema, but they’re also interested in how the people participating in this simulation got here.”