“The Manhattan Project” ( Eng. The Manhattan Project , alternative name - “Deadly Game”) is a 1986 thriller by American director Marshall Brickman ( Eng. Marshall Brickman ) about an attempt by high school students to create a nuclear bomb for an exhibition of natural sciences.
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| Genre | comedy thriller |
| Producer | Marshall Brickman |
| Producer | Marshall Brickman Jennifer ogden |
| Author script | Thomas Baumm Marshall Brickman |
| In the main cast | John Lithgow Richard Consil Cynthia Nixon |
| Operator | Billy Williams |
| Composer | Philip Sard |
| Film company | 20th Century Fox |
| Duration | 117 min |
| Budget | $ 500,000 |
| A country |  USA |
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| Year | 1986 |
| IMDb | ID 0091472 |
Content
Story
Dr. Mathewson ( John Lithgow ) discovers a way to almost completely clean plutonium . The US government provides him with a laboratory in a suburb of New York disguised as a medical center. There, the scientist meets real estate agent Elizabeth Stevens (Jill Aikenberry) and, in order to attract the beauty’s attention, invites her senior son Paul (Christopher Collet) to his laboratory, not suspecting the teenager and his girlfriend-journalist Jenny ( Cynthia Nixon ) are passionate science ...
Cast
- John Lithgow - Dr. John Mathewson
- Jill Aikenberry - Elizabeth Stevens
- Christopher Collet - Paul Stevens
- Cynthia Nixon - Jenny Enderman
- Richard Consil - Member of Government
- John Mahoney - Lieutenant Conroy
- Robert Sean Leonard - Max
Interesting Facts
- At the heart of the film is the American government's privacy policy during the 1980s Cold War .
- The box office gross of the film was $ 3.9 million with a budget of $ 500,000.
Links
- " Manhattan Project ” on the Internet Movie Database