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.
6/13/1986
Imdb: tt0091472
Tmdb: 30194
Popularity: 10.984
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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.
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
Steve Blum
Laser Efficiency Kid (as Richard Cardona)
Sarah Burke
Jenny's Parent
Robert Schenkkan
Government Aide
Richard Council
Government Aide
Fred Melamed
Howard
Ned Eisenberg
C-4 Guy (uncredited)
The Swimming Pool
RBG
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Michigan Hell House
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Platoon
The Wizard of Oz
Source Code
La La Land
Oppenheimer
Joker
Parasite
The Shawshank Redemption
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
The Godfather
The Dark Knight
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Civil War
Avatar
Back to the Future
I Am Omega
The Werewolf Game: Crazy Fox
The Werewolf Game: Prison Break
Angamaly Diaries
The Missing Scientists
I'll Follow You Down
Sicario
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Total Force
Extraterrestrial
Fear of Rain
Baadshaho
Warlords of Atlantis
FIDATI
Hackers
The Andromeda Strain
Status Update
Assassin 33 A.D.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
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