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

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)

Trailer

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