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The Manhattan Project (1986)
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Directed and cowritten by Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman, this comedy-thriller doesn't seem to know where it wants to go or what it wants to say (other than, obviously, nuclear weapons are scary things). Christopher Collet plays an overachieving high school student who decides to show just how dangerously easy it is to construct a nuclear device. He builds one for his science fair, using his mother's relationship with a government official (John Lithgow) to sneak into a secret facility and steal plutonium. When the feds find out what's going on, they overreact in a brutish showdown that threatens nuclear annihilation of everyone...
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| The Manhattan Project Movie Review by Ben (12/21/2007) |
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"The Manhattan Project" is a movie that I was very fond of as a kid, and it was another of those movies that served to show adults how smart kids can be, and how we don't always recognize that. That is in part because they do a very good job in hiding how smart they are from everyone else. It came out around the same time...
(complete The Manhattan Project review by Ben)
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