The Manhattan Project

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.

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The Manhattan Project was released in 1986 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 118 minutes.