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The Manhattan Project (1986)
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A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother. Director:Marshall Brickman |
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| John Lithgow | ... |
John Mathewson
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| Richard Council | ... |
Government
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Robert Schenkkan | ... |
Government Aide
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Paul Austin | ... |
General
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Adrian Sparks | ... |
Scientist
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Curt Dempster | ... |
Scientist
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Bran Ferren | ... |
Lab Assistant
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Christopher Collet | ... | |
| Jill Eikenberry | ... |
Elizabeth Stephens
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| Cynthia Nixon | ... |
Jenny Anderman
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Gregg Edelman | ... |
Science Teacher
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Abraham Unger | ... |
Roland
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| Robert Sean Leonard | ... |
Max
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David Quinn | ... |
Tennis
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| Geoffrey Nauffts | ... |
Craig
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Storyline
Boy meets scientist. Boy breaks into lab. Boy steals plutonium. Boy builds nuclear device. Scientist becomes mildly alarmed. Boy enters bomb in Science Fair. For the rest of the saga, you just have to see it to believe it. Written by Tim Kretschmann <Tim.K@VirComm.com>
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The switch is set... The clock has started... Time's running out! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
(USA) See more »Also Known As:
Deadly Game See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$1,503,000 (USA) (13 June 1986) (827 Screens)Gross:
$3,900,000 (USA)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Dr. John Matthewson: Now, the beta synchrotron sends the electrons through this magnet which bends the course of them down to the reaction vessel. Stay away from that elbow joint. All right. Bran, you want to get that? Now, this is a tunable excimer laser. It's tuned to the exact resonance of the plutonium-239 that's in the reaction vessel down at that end. Now, I think we're all set. Hit it.
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Dr. Matthewson's line, "fellow sons of bitches," is a reference to original Manhattan Project scientist Kenneth Bainbridge. Following the first successful test explosion of an atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, Bainbridge said to fellow project scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Now we are all sons of bitches." See more »Goofs
Continuity: Paul's mother is surprised when he gets up at 4:00 in the morning at the beginning of the movie. Later on, she tells Mathewson that Paul has been getting up this early - and earlier -regularly for years. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Dr. John Matthewson: Now, the beta synchrotron sends the electrons through this magnet which bends the course of them down to the reaction vessel. Stay away from that elbow joint. All right. Bran, you want to get that? Now, this is a tunable excimer laser. It's tuned to the exact resonance of the plutonium-239 that's in the reaction vessel down at that end. Now, I think we're all set. Hit it.
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