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The Manhattan Project

1986·1h 57m·PG-13
ThrillerSci-Fi
IMDb Rating
★ 6.1/10
7,520 votes
Metascore
61
Metacritic

A high school prodigy builds an atomic bomb with stolen plutonium to win the 45th National Science Fair and expose a nuclear weapons lab posing as a nuclear medical research facility in Ithaca, NY.

The Manhattan Project is a 1986 thriller sci-fi movie directed by Marshall Brickman, starring Robert Schenkkan, John Lithgow, Christopher Collet. It holds an IMDb rating of 6.1/10 from 7,520 votes and runs 1h 57m.

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Director
Marshall Brickman
Stars
Robert Schenkkan
John Lithgow
Christopher Collet
Richard Council
Details
1986-06-13
117 min
Movie
PG-13
★ United States
★ English
Keywords
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