PG-131h 58m1986
The Manhattan Project
“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.”
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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.
- Director
- Marshall Brickman
- Writers
- Thomas Baum, Marshall Brickman
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Release date
- 13 June 1986
- Budget
- $18,000,000
- Box office
- $3,900,000
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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
Robert Sean Leonard
Max
Sully Boyar
Night Guard
Timothy Carhart
Relief Guard
Steve Blum
Laser Efficiency Kid (as Richard Cardona)
Gregg Edelman
Science Teacher
Sarah Burke
Jenny's Parent
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