The Manhattan Project (1986)
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.
poster The Manhattan Project
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6.2/10 (5387 votes)

Country:United States, 117 minutes

Spoken Languages:English

Genres:Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director(s):Marshall Brickman

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 1297

Storyline:
Paul Stephens, a high school student in Ithaca, New York, is generally unmotivated academically despite being a science geek, his interest, as per his age, mostly in those science items that have a wow factor. It is his interest in science that connects him to Dr. John Mathewson, a scientist recently having relocated to Ithaca and who is interested romantically in Paul's soon to be divorced mother, Elizabeth Stephens. It is in that want to impress Elizabeth through Paul that John invites Paul to Medatomics, a medical research facility, so that he can demonstrate some of those "wow" type experiments on which he and his colleagues are working. While impressed enough, Paul is nonetheless more interested in something else in the facility that John only makes passing reference to when asked, that "green goo" which in combination with other things Paul discovers around the facility making him believe that the facility really a secret government nuclear one, the green goo radioactive ...

Cast:

photo John Lithgow
John Lithgow John Mathewson
photo Christopher Collet
Christopher Collet Paul Stephens
photo Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry Elizabeth Stephens
photo Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon Jenny Anderman
photo Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard Max

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