The Manhattan Project

Rating	PG13
Format	DVD
Year Released	1986
Run Time	118 min
Stars	John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney
Director	Marshall Brickman
Color	Color
Editor	Nina Feinberg
Special Effects	Connie Brink, Bran Ferren
Language	English
Subtitles	English/Espanol

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Everyone knows that teenagers are smarter than adults, and if given a chance the kids could save the world--if they don't blow it to bits first. The Manhattan Project tells of how 16-year-old Christopher Collet tries to alert his community to the dangers of nuclear energy. John Lithgow, a doctor in a pharmaceutical research plant wherein covert plutonium experiments are taking place, is the boy friend of Cowlet's mom Jill Eikenberry. While Lithgow is romantically occupied, Cowlet and his girl Cynthia Nixon steal the plutonium and construct their own atomic bomb. They do this, of course, as a warning to foolhardy grownups--none more foolhardy than the folks who put up good money to make this film. Manhattan Project was directed by longtime Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman, whose expert sense of comic timing obscures the thickheaded "message" of this picture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide