The Manhattan Project
1986
6.2 (119)
1 hr 58 min
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.
$18,000,000
$3,900,000
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.
Top Cast
John Lithgow as John Mathewson
Christopher Collet as Paul Stephens
Cynthia Nixon as Jenny Anderman
Jill Eikenberry as Elizabeth Stephens
John Mahoney as Lt. Col. Conroy
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