The Manhattan Project

Movie Details

Overview

A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as a nuclear medical research facility in Ithaca, NY.

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Cast: Adrian Sparks, Bran Ferren, Christopher Collet, Curt Dempster, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Lithgow, Paul Austin, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan

Director: Marshall Brickman

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller

Country: United States

Release Year: 1986

IMDB Rating: 6.1 (7394 votes)

TMDB Rating: 6.3 (92 votes)

Rotten Tomatoes: 50

Metacritic: 61

Runtime: 1h 57m

Budget: 3,900,000 USD

Release Date: 1986-06-13

Awards: Awards, 1 win & 2 nominations total

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.