Fat Man and Little Boy (film)

Fat Man and Little Boy
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Directed by	Roland Joffé
Screenplay by	Bruce Robinson Roland Joffé
Story by	Bruce Robinson
Produced by	Tony Garnett
Starring	Paul Newman Dwight Schultz Bonnie Bedelia John Cusack Laura Dern John C. McGinley
Cinematography	Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by	Françoise Bonnot
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Production company	Lightmotive
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 20, 1989 (1989-10-20)
Running time	127 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30 million[1]
Box office	$3,563,162

Fat Man and Little Boy (released in the United Kingdom as Shadow Makers) is a 1989 American epic historical war drama film directed by Roland Joffé, who co-wrote the script with Bruce Robinson. The story follows the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after "Little Boy" and "Fat Man", the two bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The film starred Paul Newman as Leslie Groves and Dwight Schultz as J. Robert Oppenheimer, with supporting roles filled by Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C. McGinley and Natasha Richardson.