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Actors: John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Cynthia Nixon, Jill Eikenberry, John Mahoney
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Manhattan Project (1986) |
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Paul Stevens (Collet) is an acknowledged genius among his peers. He plays brainy pranks on fellow students and has a restless, active mind. When his mother (Eikenberry) meets a research physicist (Lithgow) and they become interested in each other, Stevens gets worried. His worry increases after discovering the medical lab where the doctor claims to work is a front. It is handling atomic materials, specifically weapons grade plutonium.
With the help of his fellow student and budding love interest (Nixon), Stevens breaks into the plant and steals some of the super-pure plutonium. At first, the task is challenge enough. Now he wants to build his own atomic bomb for the science fair.
Trouble ensues when the feds find shampoo in place of some of the plutonium. One army colonel in particular (Mahoney) wants to preserve the secrecy of the nuclear weapons lab at any cost.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Technology/treasure/info search
Yes
involving:
- nukes
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Genius
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- fight for survival
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 0 (not a murder mystery)
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 10 (a tremendous amount)
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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