The Manhattan Project (1986)
- Directed by
- Marshall Brickman
- Genre
- teen film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 119 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A gifted high school student builds a working atomic bomb for a science fair. The government and his mother's boyfriend try to stop him.
wittysuspensefulquirkynerdyfast-paceddarkly comictenseclever
What happens
The Manhattan Project is a 1986 American science fiction thriller film. Named after the World War II-era program that constructed the first atomic bombs, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct an atomic bomb for a national science fair. It was directed by Marshall Brickman, based upon his screenplay co-written with Thomas Baum, and starred Christopher Collet, John Lithgow, John Mahoney, Jill Eikenberry and Cynthia Nixon. This film – a box-office bomb whose ticket sales recovered just 21 percent of its budget – was the first from the short-lived Gladden Entertainment. The film's director and screenplay co-writer Marshall Brickman had established his career as a co-writer on several Woody Allen films. The Manhattan Project was his third film as director, following the comedies Simon (1980) and Lovesick (1983). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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