The Manhattan Project (1986)
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A dangerous game starts the clock ticking on a nuclear bomb. Can anyone stop Armageddon? This gripping doomsday story follows a high school science whiz who builds an atomic bomb as a prank…only to trigger a horrifying race against time. Starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet and Cynthia Nixon, 'The Manhattan Project' is "intelligent and entertain with a satisfyingly suspenseful finale"! Teenage science genius Paul realizes the lab of Dr. Mathewson his mother's new boyfriend, isn't really developing lasers. It's building nuclear bombs. To expose the lab's secret mission, Paul and his girlfriend Jenny steal some plutonium, build a bomb and enter it in a science fair. But the military learns of Paul's plans and pursues him with lethal force. Now, as time is running out, only Dr. Mathewson can save Paul…and stop the unthinkable from occurring!
