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The Manhattan Project (1986)
Directed by Marshall Brickman
“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.”
Science Fiction, Thriller · 1h 58m
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.
Cast
John Lithgow
John Mathewson
Christopher Collet
Paul Stephens
Cynthia Nixon
Jenny Anderman
Jill Eikenberry
Elizabeth Stephens
John Mahoney
Lt. Col. Conroy
Richard Jenkins
Radiation Controls Officer
Sully Boyar
Night Guard
Timothy Carhart
Relief Guard
Gregg Edelman
Science Teacher
JD Cullum
Eccles (as John David Cullum)
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Abraham Unger
Roland (as Abe Unger)
Robert Sean Leonard
Max
Crew
- Director
- Marshall Brickman
- Writer
- Thomas Baum, Marshall Brickman
- Director of Photography
- Billy Williams
- Original Music Composer
- Philippe Sarde
- Editor
- Nina Feinberg
- Producer
- Jennifer Ogden, Marshall Brickman, Bruce McNall
Details
- Release date
- 1986-06-13
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Gladden Entertainment
- Budget
- $18,000,000
- Box office
- $3,900,000