| The Manhattan Project | |
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| Directed by | Marshall Brickman |
| Written by | Thomas Baum Marshall Brickman |
| Produced by | Marshall Brickman Jennifer Ogden |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Billy Williams |
| Edited by | Nina Feinberg |
| Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Production company | Gladden Entertainment |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million[1] |
| Box office | $3.9 million (US)[2] |
The Manhattan Project is a 1986 American science fiction thriller film. Named after the World War II-era program that constructed the first atomic bombs, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct an atomic bomb for a national science fair. It was directed by Marshall Brickman, based upon his screenplay co-written with Thomas Baum, and starred Christopher Collet, John Lithgow, John Mahoney, Jill Eikenberry and Cynthia Nixon. This film – a box-office bomb whose ticket sales recovered just 21 percent of its budget – was the first from the short-lived Gladden Entertainment.
The film's director and screenplay co-writer Marshall Brickman had established his career as a co-writer on several Woody Allen films. The Manhattan Project was his third film as director, following the comedies Simon (1980) and Lovesick (1983).
- ^ Andrew Yule, Hollywood a Go-Go: The True Story of the Cannon Film Empire, Sphere Books, 1987 p136
- ^ "The Manhattan Project".