# The Manhattan Project (1986)

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**Runtime**: 118 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Thriller
**Directed by**: Marshall Brickman
**Written by**: Marshall Brickman, Thomas Baum
**Starring**: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney, Richard Jenkins

> *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.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Idaho autumn, cornfields rustling past reactor cooling towers. A seventeen-year-old skates after-hours, smuggles glove-box gloves home. Two duffel bags of reactor-grade plutonium later, his garage hums with Geiger counters and algebra textbooks.

Marshall Brickman’s 1980s paranoid-tech thriller knows exactly how to keep the Yellowcake glittering just off-screen.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, paranoid, raw

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