The Manhattan Project

1986·118'

Marshall Brickman

ThrillerScience Fiction

English

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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.

Cast

John Lithgow John Mathewson Christopher Collet Paul Stephens Cynthia Nixon Jenny Anderman Jill Eikenberry Elizabeth Stephens John Mahoney Lt. Col. Conroy Richard Jenkins Radiation Controls Officer Sully Boyar Night Guard Timothy Carhart Relief Guard Gregg Edelman Science Teacher JD Cullum Eccles (as John David Cullum)

Abraham Unger Roland (as Abe Unger) Robert Sean Leonard Max