IMDB: 6.1 June 13, 1986 117 min Thriller, Sci-Fi USA Marshall Brickman John Lithgow, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan, Adrian Sparks
The Manhattan Project: 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.
