The Manhattan Project
- Release Date
- June 13, 1986
- Director
- Marshall Brickman
- Cast
- John Lithgow , Richard Council , Robert Schenkkan , Paul Austin , Adrian Sparks , Curt Dempster
- Runtime
- 117
- Main Genre
- Sci-Fi
- Writers
- Marshall Brickman , Thomas Baum
- Tagline
- Paul Stevens' high school science project has gotten a little out of hand. He just built an atomic bomb. Now he's got 11 hours to make sure it doesn't work.
Summary
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
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