
The Manhattan Project (1986)
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- PG-13
- 1h 57min
- Sci-Fi, Thriller
- 13 Jun 1986 (USA)
- Movie
- 1 win & 2 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
John Lithgow | ... |
John Mathewson
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Richard Council | ... |
Government Aide
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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 | ... |
Paul Stephens
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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
(as Abe Unger)
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Robert Sean Leonard | ... |
Max
(as Robert Leonard)
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David Quinn | ... |
Tennis
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Geoffrey Nauffts | ... |
Craig
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Katherine Hiler | ... |
Emma
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Trey Cummins | ... |
Terry
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Steve Borton | ... |
Local FBI
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Harlan Cary Poe | ... |
Local FBI
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Ned Schmidtke | ... |
Jenny's Parent
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Sarah Burke | ... |
Jenny's Parent
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Allen DeCheser | ... |
Jenny's Brother
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Arthur De Cheser | ... |
Jenny's Brother
(as Arthur DeCheser)
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John Mahoney | ... |
Lt. Col. Conroy
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Fred G. Smith | ... |
Conroy's Lieutenant
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JD Cullum | ... |
Eccles
(as John David Cullum)
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Manny Jacobs | ... |
Moore
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Charles Fields | ... |
Price
(as Charlie Fields)
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Eric Hsiao | ... |
Saito
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Trevor Bolling | ... |
Halley's Comet Kid
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Steve Blum | ... |
Laser Efficiency Kid
(as Richard Cardona)
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Heather Rose Dominic | ... |
Flirting Kid
(as Heather Dominic)
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Bruce Smolanoff | ... |
Flirting Kid
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Joan Kendall | ... |
Registrar
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John Doumanian | ... |
Cabbie
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Tom Tarpey | ... |
Injection Doctor
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Roger Caine | ... |
FBI
(as Alec Massey)
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Edward D. Murphy | ... |
FBI
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Dee Ann McDavid | ... |
FBI
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Joan Harris | ... |
Barbara Collins - TV Reporter
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Kerry Donovan | ... |
Kerry Donovan - WBNG News
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Ken Chapin | ... |
Command
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Peter McRobbie | ... |
Electronics
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Warren Keith | ... |
Computer
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Bruce Jarchow | ... |
Interrogator
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Stephen Markle | ... |
Interogator
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Al Cerullo | ... |
Helicopter Pilot
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Richard Jenkins | ... |
Radiation Controls Officer
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Sully Boyar | ... |
Night Guard
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Timothy Carhart | ... |
Relief Guard
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Fred Melamed | ... |
Howard
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Warren Manzi | ... |
Day Attendant
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Michael Telesco | ... |
Day Security Receptionist
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Frank Ferrara | ... |
SWAT
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Jimmie Ray Weeks | ... |
SWAT
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William Weslow | ... |
SWAT
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Dan Butler | ... |
SWAT
(as Dan E. Butler)
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Steve Zettler | ... |
SWAT
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Richard Caselnova | ... |
SWAT
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Thomas Brogan | ... |
Local townsperson (uncredited)
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Sam Carrell | ... |
Mary (uncredited)
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George Cron | ... |
Computer Operator (uncredited)
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E.J. Dougherty | ... |
Teen at Science Fair (uncredited)
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Ned Eisenberg | ... |
C-4 Guy (uncredited)
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Debbie Gibson | ... |
Extra (uncredited)
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Keith Howard | ... |
Science Fair Kid (uncredited)
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Richard Hughes | ... |
D.O.D. Man (uncredited)
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Directed by
Marshall Brickman |
Written by
Marshall Brickman | ... | (written by) & |
Thomas Baum | ... | (written by) |
Produced by
Marshall Brickman | ... | producer |
Bruce McNall | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Jennifer Ogden | ... | producer |
Roger Paradiso | ... | associate producer |
Music by
Philippe Sarde |
Cinematography by
Billy Williams | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
Nina Feinberg |
Editorial Department
Kristina Boden | ... | assistant editor |
Bob Hagans | ... | color timer |
Bill Johnson | ... | apprentice editor |
Camilla Toniolo | ... | assistant editor |
Casting By
Juliet Taylor |
Production Design by
Philip Rosenberg |
Art Direction by
Robert Guerra |
Set Decoration by
Nina Ramsey | ||
Philip Smith |
Costume Design by
Shay Cunliffe |
Makeup Department
Richard Dean | ... | makeup artist |
Tony Marrero | ... | hair stylist |
Production Management
Lois Kramer Hartwick | ... | assistant unit manager |
Jennifer Ogden | ... | production manager |
Roger Paradiso | ... | unit production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ron Bozman | ... | first assistant director |
Judy Ferguson | ... | dga trainee |
Kyle McCarthy | ... | second assistant director |
David Sardi | ... | additional second assistant director |
Chris Stoia | ... | additional second assistant director |
Art Department
Sil Avallone | ... | construction: laboratory |
Carl Baldasso | ... | construction: laboratory |
Hank Bauer | ... | construction foreman |
Phillip Cullem | ... | construction: laboratory |
Tony Gamiello | ... | property master |
Kip Jackson | ... | construction: laboratory |
Harry Joyner | ... | construction: laboratory |
Robert Kohut | ... | construction: laboratory |
Alan Lampel | ... | construction: laboratory |
Brick Mason | ... | storyboard artist |
Kevin McCarthy | ... | set dresser |
Ann Miller | ... | props (as Annie Miller) |
Robert 'Pete' Miller | ... | head construction grip (as Pete Miller) |
Lars Pederson | ... | construction: laboratory |
Richard Pirro | ... | construction: laboratory |
Paul Pratt | ... | construction: laboratory |
Jon Ringbom | ... | master scenic artist |
Siv Sandstrom | ... | art department coordinator |
Hans Swanson | ... | props |
Alan D. Webb | ... | construction: laboratory (as Alan Webb) |
Joan Winters | ... | graphic designer |
Peter Ydeen | ... | construction: laboratory |
John Alvin | ... | poster artist (uncredited) |
Christopher Nelson | ... | set dresser (uncredited) |
Sound Department
Marjorie Deutsch | ... | looping editor |
Lee Dichter | ... | re-recording mixer: Sound One |
Michael DiCosimo | ... | consultant: Dolby Stereo |
Kathleen Earle Killeen | ... | assistant sound editor (as Kathleen Kileen) |
Vito L. Ilardi | ... | recordist (as Vito Ilardi) |
Les Lazarowitz | ... | sound mixer |
Barbara Minor | ... | assistant sound editor |
Michael Moyse | ... | sound editor (as Michel Moyse) |
Linda Murphy | ... | boom operator |
Bitty O'Sullivan-Smith | ... | sound editor (as Bitty O'Sullivan Smith) |
Dan Sable | ... | supervising sound editor |
Lynn Sable | ... | assistant sound editor |
Diane Schaub | ... | assistant looping editor |
Reilly Steele | ... | adr engineer |
Special Effects by
Connie Brink | ... | special effects |
Bran Ferren | ... | special effects supervisor |
Visual Effects by
John Alagna | ... | optical line-up: Associates & Ferren |
Myles Ambrose | ... | electronics & robotics |
Susan Coursey | ... | assistant: Mr. Ferren, Associates & Ferren |
Topher Dow | ... | project coordinator: Associates & Ferren |
Robert C. Francis | ... | electronics & robotics (as Robert Francis) |
John Frith | ... | electronics & robotics |
Charles Harrison | ... | chief engineer: Associates & Ferren |
Chester Hartwell | ... | electronics & robotics |
Martin Hill | ... | acquisitions: Associates & Ferren |
John C. Huntington III | ... | electronics & robotics (as John Huntington) |
Susan Le Ber | ... | purchasing agent: Associates & Ferren (as Susan LeBer) |
Jeffrey Lind | ... | electronics & robotics |
David McDonough | ... | researcher: Associates & Ferren |
Mark Napoletano | ... | laser systems |
Melissa Rice | ... | electronics & robotics |
Robert Rowohlt | ... | optical cameraman: Associates & Ferren (as Bob Rowohlt) |
Eric Schultz | ... | laser systems |
Steven Schultz | ... | laser systems |
James Shelly | ... | general manager: Associates & Ferren (as James N. Shelly) |
Caleb Weissberg | ... | electronics & robotics |
Marjorie Winslow | ... | secretary: Associates & Ferren |
Ken Wisner | ... | mechanical engineer: Associates & Ferren |
Stunts
Roy Farfel | ... | stunts |
Frank Ferrara | ... | stunt coordinator |
Michael Russo | ... | stuntman (as Michael C. Russo) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Connors | ... | rigging gaffer (as Bobby Connors) |
S. Karin Epstein | ... | still photographer |
Neil Fallon | ... | video technician |
James Finnerty | ... | key grip (as Jim Finnerty) |
John Finnerty | ... | key grip |
Richard C. Kratina | ... | camera operator (as Dick Kratina) / director of photography: second unit (as Dick Kratina) |
Gary Muller | ... | second assistant camera |
Hank Muller | ... | first assistant camera |
Tom Priestley Jr. | ... | camera operator (as Thomas Priestley Jr.) |
Richard Quinlan | ... | gaffer (as Dick Quinlan) |
Joseph Trammell | ... | video technician (as Joe Trammell) |
Robert M. Volpe | ... | dolly grip (as Bobby Volpe) |
Lance Wandling | ... | video technician |
James Halligan | ... | grip (uncredited) |
Casting Department
Sylvia Fay | ... | extras casting |
Ellen Lewis | ... | casting associate |
Cynthia Neil | ... | assistant extras casting |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Holly Hynes | ... | assistant costume designer |
Daniel P. Lomax | ... | costume supervisor (as Dan Lomax) |
Karen Whittaker | ... | costume supervisor |
Location Management
Donna E. Bloom | ... | location coordinator (as Donna Bloom) |
Selma Brown | ... | location auditor |
Charles Lum | ... | location coordinator |
George Sinski | ... | location coordinator |
Music Department
Billy Byers | ... | orchestrator (as Bill Byers) |
William Flageollet | ... | music engineer |
Orchestre de Paris | ... | orchestra: music recorded by |
Harry Rabinowitz | ... | conductor |
Script and Continuity Department
Mary Bailey | ... | script supervisor |
Transportation Department
Harry J. Leavey | ... | transportation coordinator (as Harry Leavey) |
James Sweeney | ... | transportation co-captain |
Additional Crew
Michael Alatriste | ... | production assistant |
Bruce Bahrenburg | ... | unit publicist |
Sam Bruskin | ... | studio manager (as Samuel Bruskin) |
Sarah Carson | ... | production office coordinator |
Betsy Gleysteen | ... | production assistant |
Jessica Gribetz | ... | assistant: Mr. Brickman |
Liza J. Harris | ... | production assistant (as Liza Harris) |
Donatella Hecht | ... | production assistant |
Maureen Hudson-Murari | ... | assistant production office coordinator |
Erin Quinn | ... | assistant location auditor |
Annie Spiegelman | ... | production assistant |
Jason Walsh | ... | production assistant |
Skip Rose | ... | stan-in: Greg Edelman (uncredited) |
Thanks
Jim Hensen | ... | the producers wish to thank |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Twentieth Century Fox (1986) (United States) (theatrical)
- Cannon Screen Entertainment (1986) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Cannon Screen Entertainment (1986) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Cannon France (1986) (France) (theatrical) (for Auteur Artistes Associaes)
- Scotia-Cannon (1986) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- Consorzio Italiano Distributori Indipendenti Film (CIDIF) (1987) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Sandrew Film & Teater AB (1987) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Home Box Office Home Video (HBO) (United States) (VHS)
- Toho (1987) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Warner Home Video (1987) (United Kingdom) (VHS)
- Cannon/VMP (1988) (West Germany) (VHS)
- Filmayer Vídeo (1988) (Spain) (VHS)
- Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (1988) (Argentina) (VHS)
- Video Medien Pool (VMP) (1988) (West Germany) (VHS)
- Image Entertainment (1989) (United States) (video) (Laserdisc)
- Lumière Home Vídeo (1989) (Brazil) (VHS)
- Weintraub Entertainment Group (1989) (United States) (sales)
- Weintraub Entertainment (1989) (United Kingdom) (VHS) (budget release)
- MGM Home Entertainment (2002) (United States) (DVD)
- Kino Lorber (2016) (United States) (DVD)
- Kino Lorber (2016) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Llamentol (2016) (Spain) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Artaire Films (2021) (Spain) (VOD)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Avon Books (book publisher)
- Hastings Sound Editorial (sound editing)
- International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) (acknowledgement)
- Joe Dunton Cameras America (camera and lenses)
- Lee Lighting America (location equipment)
- Sound One (re-recording mixing)
- The Optical House (titles)
- Varèse Sarabande (soundtrack published by)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
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 material for atomic bombs. Paul and his classmate/girlfriend Jenny Anderman, an aspiring journalist, want to expose Medatomics for what they believe it to be as there was no community notification about operating a potentially dangerous nuclear facility there. While Jenny wants to go the traditional route in writing an exposé, Paul believes there is only one effective way to get their message across to the world while making them both famous. The further Paul, with Jenny's help, gets to enacting his plan to its intended end, the more he may place their lives and that of the community in danger, especially if the authorities discover what he is doing. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | 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. See more » |
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Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Box Office
Budget | $18,000,000 (estimated) |
Opening Weekend United States | $1,503,000, 13 Jun 1986 |
Did You Know?
Trivia | The kids with science projects in the background of the science fair scenes were actual NYC middle school students with real science projects that were submitted to the NYC borough-wide science fair. These scenes were filmed over a three-day period at the Penta Hotel in NYC on 33rd St. See more » |
Goofs | Plutonium must be alloyed with another metal (usually gallium) in order to prevent forming allotropes which cause it to crack while cooling. Cracks in the pit would have significant impact in the weapon, and could result in a fizzle (non-nuclear explosion.) See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off/Back to School/The Manhattan Project (1986). See more » |
Quotes |
Dr. John Matthewson:
You try to tough it out with them, they'll lock you in a room somewhere and throw away the room. See more » |