The Manhattan Project is a 1986 American film released on June 13, 1986. 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. Produced with a budget of only $500,000, the film gr...
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The Manhattan Project is a 1986 American film released on June 13, 1986. 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. Produced with a budget of only $500,000, the film grossed $3,900,000 USD at the box office. It was directed by Marshall Brickman, based upon his screenplay co-written with Thomas Baum, and starred Christopher Collet, John Lithgow, John Mahoney, and Cynthia Nixon.
Dr. John Mathewson (John Lithgow) discovers a new process for refining plutonium to purities greater than 99.997 percent. The U.S. government provides him a laboratory located near a suburban neighborhood in Ithaca, New York masked as the medical company, Medatomics. Mathewson moves to Ithaca and meets real estate agent Elizabeth...
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