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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.
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.
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Cast
- John Lithgow as John Mathewson
- Christopher Collet as Paul Stephens
- Cynthia Nixon as Jenny Anderman
- Jill Eikenberry as Elizabeth Stephens
- John Mahoney as Lt. Col. Conroy
- Richard Jenkins as Radiation Controls Officer
- Sully Boyar as Night Guard
- Timothy Carhart as Relief Guard
- Gregg Edelman as Science Teacher
- JD Cullum as Eccles (as John David Cullum)
- Abraham Unger as Roland (as Abe Unger)
- Robert Sean Leonard as Max
Details
- Director
- Marshall Brickman
- Released
- June 13, 1986
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Thriller
- Studio
- Gladden Entertainment
- Status
- Released
- TMDB score
- 6.2 / 10 from 122 votes
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