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The Manhattan Project

Summary: 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.

Release Date: June 13, 1986

Genres: Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Marshall Brickman

Writers: Marshall Brickman

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Gladden Entertainment, Gladden Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Image Entertainment, Weintraub Entertainment Group, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,900,000

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