The Manhattan Project

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.

• Rated 6.2 out of 10
• Movie
• 1986
• 1h 58m
• Science Fiction
• Thriller

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.

Director

Marshall Brickman

Starring

John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry