Fat Man and Little Boy (a.k.a. Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after the nuclear weapons known by the code names "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and also potentially as a reference to the portly Gen. Leslie R. Groves and the seemingly much younger Robert Oppenheimer, the respective military and scientific...
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Fat Man and Little Boy (a.k.a. Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after the nuclear weapons known by the code names "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and also potentially as a reference to the portly Gen. Leslie R. Groves and the seemingly much younger Robert Oppenheimer, the respective military and scientific heads of the project, who dominate the film.
The film was directed by Roland Joffe and written by Joffe and Bruce Robinson.
In the midst of World War II, in September 1942, U.S Army General Leslie Groves (Paul Newman) is given the assignment to beat the Germans in building an atomic bomb as the head of the ultra-secret Manhattan Project. Groves soon hires physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz) to run the laboratory in charge of the scientists involved in the project. General Groves is a career military man working inside the...
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