MANHATTAN PROJECT (WIDESCREEN/FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science-Fiction, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: A dangerous game starts the clock ticking on a nuclear bomb. Can anyone stop Armageddon? This gripping doomsday story follows a high school science whiz who builds an atomic bomb as a prank only to trigger a horrifying race against time. Co-starring John Lithgow (A Civil Action), ChristopherCollet (The Langoliers) and Cynthia Nixon ('sex and the City ), The Manhattan Projectis intelligent and entertaining [with] a satisfyingly suspenseful finale (The Hollywood Reporter)! ; ; Teenage science genius Paul (Collet) realizes the lab of Dr. Mathewson (Lithgow), his mother's new boyfriend, isn't really developing lasers. It's building nuclear bombs. To expose the lab'ssecret mission, Paul and his girlfriend Jenny (Nixon) steal some plutonium, build a bomb and enter it in a science fair. But the military learns of Paul's plans and pursues him with lethal force. Now, as time is running out, only Dr. Mathewson can save Paul and stop the unthinkable from occurring!
• Cast: John Lithgow, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan, Paul Austin, Adrian Sparks, Curt Dempster, Bran Ferren, Christopher Collet, Jill Eikenberry, Cynthia Nixon, Gregg Edelman, Abraham Unger, Robert Sean Leonard, David Quinn, Geoffrey Nauffts, Katherine Hiler, Trey Cummins, Steve Borton, Harlan Cary Poe, Ned Schmidtke, Sarah Burke, Allen DeCheser, Arthur De Cheser, John Mahoney, Fred G. Smith, JD Cullum, Manny Jacobs, Charles Fields, Eric Hsiao, Trevor Bolling, Steven Jay Blum, Heather Rose Dominic, Bruce Smolanoff, Joan Kendall, John Doumanian, Tom Tarpey, Roger Caine, Edward D. Murphy, Dee Ann McDavid, Joan Harris, Kerry Donovan, Ken Chapin, Peter McRobbie, Warren Keith, Bruce Jarchow, Stephen Markle, Al Cerullo, Richard Jenkins, Sully Boyar, Timothy Carhart, Fred Melamed, Warren Manzi, Michael Telesco, Frank Ferrara, Jimmie Ray Weeks, William Weslow, Dan Butler, Steve Zettler, Richard Caselnova, Craig Austin, Deborah Gibson, Marshall Brickman
• Director: Marshall Brickman
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Orion Pictures Corporation
• Media Format: Movie