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Overview

User Rating:
5.7/10   2,067 votes
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Director:
Marshall Brickman
Writers:
Marshall Brickman (written by) &
Thomas Baum (written by)
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Release Date:
13 June 1986 (USA) more
Tagline:
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. more
Plot:
A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Back to the H-Bomb
 (From ioncinema. 16 February 2006)

User Comments:
Pretty good "cold war" thinker. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Lithgow ... John Mathewson

Richard Council ... Government
Robert Schenkkan ... Government Aide
Paul Austin ... General
Adrian Sparks ... Scientist
Curt Dempster ... Scientist
Bran Ferren ... Lab Assistant
Christopher Collet ... Paul Stephens
Jill Eikenberry ... Elizabeth Stephens

Cynthia Nixon ... Jenny Anderman
Gregg Edelman ... Science Teacher
Abraham Unger ... Roland (as Abe Unger)
Robert Sean Leonard ... Max (as Robert Leonard)
David Quinn ... Tennis

Geoffrey Nauffts ... Craig
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Deadly Game (USA) (video title)
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Runtime:
117 min | West Germany:107 min (video)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The main theme of the score is, fittingly, based on the Christmas carol "The First Noel". more
Goofs:
Continuity: The security guard spends several minutes in the rain. When he goes into the lab to investigate he is dry and leaves no wet trail. 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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Movie Connections:
Features The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) more

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1 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Pretty good "cold war" thinker., 27 August 2001
7/10
Author: DrMess from California

This movie has some real quotables in it that boosted the ratings for me. Christopher Collet's character is a little too perfect, and at points you wonder what his intentions (and the plot) really are, but at least this keeps the movie somewhat unpredictable.

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