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Title: The Manhattan Project (1986)
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1 win & 1 nomination.
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Tennis
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A teen and his girlfriend make an atomic bomb with plutonium stolen from a scientist dating his mother.
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plutonium | atomic bomb | scientist | cell phone | radio controlled toy |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 »Certificate:
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13 June 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Deadly Game See more »Box Office
Budget:
$18,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$3,900,000 (USA)Company Credits
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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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The main theme of the score is, fittingly, based on the Christmas carol "The First Noel". See more »Goofs
Every time Paul opens the glove box in Dr. Matheson's Mercedes he picks the lock with his nail file, but never locks it again. The glove box lock is simply set to lock automatically when closed. 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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I don't understand why this movie is so lowly rated. The movie has a really good plot, and I really like how there is even a little comedy combined with the movie's serious plot. First with the son's steal and building of the nuclear device. I wonder if the more comical moments had come from John Lithgow's roll in all of this. I especially like his jokes about the government works.
"They're gorillas, they can hurt you. If you try to talk it out with them, they'll lock you in a room somewhere and throw away the room."
"What did you want us to do, put up a neon sign saying 'secret weapons laboratory'?"
The Science Fair moments in the movie were also quite entertaining. Especially where they introduce themselves to the science fair kids, then when they get out with the same kids pulling them out of the room and resoling them out away from the government's agents.
The movie itself is somewhat unbelievable, but it's interesting and entertaining.