- HD 1080
- Runtime: 118m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Marshall Brickman
- Stars: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney
- keywords: helicopter, bomb, plutonium, laser, heist, fugitive, scientist, nuclear, project
- Production_studio: Gladden Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
- Slogan: 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.
- The The Manhattan Project is featured in the top rankings of 1986
- #25 in Top Thriller Movies of 1986
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.
