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The Manhattan Project

6.3 118 mins Science Fiction   Thriller   1986
Gladden Entertainment   20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Marshall Brickman

Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.

Casts of The Manhattan Project

John Lithgow

as John Mathewson

Christopher Collet

as Paul Stephens

Cynthia Nixon

as Jenny Anderman

Jill Eikenberry

as Elizabeth Stephens

John Mahoney

as Lt. Col. Conroy

Richard Jenkins

as Radiation Controls Officer

Steve Blum

as Laser Efficiency Kid (as Richard Cardona)

Sarah Burke

as Jenny's Parent

Robert Schenkkan

as Government Aide

Richard Council

as Government Aide

Fred Melamed

as Howard

Ned Eisenberg

as C-4 Guy (uncredited)

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