
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.
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.
- Year: 1986
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
- Studio: Gladden Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
- Keyword: helicopter, bomb, plutonium, laser, heist, fugitive, scientist, nuclear, project
- Director: Marshall Brickman
- Cast: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney, Richard Jenkins