The Manhattan Project
1986, Film, 117 min, Sci-Fi, Thriller, English, United States, MoviePedia score 63
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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Directed by Marshall Brickman
Cast
- John Lithgow as John Mathewson
- Christopher Collet as Paul Stephens
- Richard Council as Government Aide
- Robert Schenkkan as Government Aide
- Paul Austin as General
- Adrian Sparks as Scientist
- Curt Dempster as Scientist
- Bran Ferren as Lab Assistant
- Jill Eikenberry as Elizabeth Stephens
- Cynthia Nixon as Jenny Anderman
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