The Manhattan Project
"One of the most intelligent and gripping thrillers of recent years." -Time
A dangerous game start 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 (A Civil Action) Christopher Collet (The Langoliers) and Cynthia Nixon (Sex And The City), The Manhattan Project is "intelligent and entertain with a satisfyingly suspenseful finale" (The Hollywood Reporter!
Teenage science genius Paul (Collet) realizes the lab of Dr. Mathewson (Lithgow) 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 (Nixon) 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!
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Divertissant - morlock
Il ne s'agit pas de grand cinéma mais ce film m'a plu énormément. C'est comme un MacGyver, on sait que cela est impossible mais c'est agréable de voir la débrouillandise mélangée à un peu de fantaisie. Ayant vue ce film dans ma jeunesse cela me rappelle de lointains souvenirs et c'est probablement la principale raison de mon intérêt pour ce film parce qu'évidemment il ne fait pas vraiment le poids aux films d'aujourd'hui.Don't try this at home!!!!!! - movie_goer
What starts out is a potential great movie nothing too spectacular but mindless fun about a boy ( Christopher Collet) who's got the hots for his high school science classmate (Cynthia Nixon). Then it takes a sudden turn to serious Nuclear issues as John Lithgrow a scientist wheels himself into town and falls for Collet's mother. As 2 major science geeks hit heads Collets brainy solution to steal plutoniaum from the lab and build a bomb, becomes stupid and risking lives of others. Yet at the end Collet's character gets a slap on the hand and the girl aswell Lithgrow the next father figure for Collet. If life where like that... nobody's safe.
So i must say what kind of Idiot allows some kid to get away with building bombs then de-activating them after you "accidentally" turn it on in a lab with flamable explosives and 1000's surrounding you?
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Divertissant - morlock
Il ne s'agit pas de grand cinéma mais ce film m'a plu énormément. C'est comme un MacGyver, on sait que cela est impossible mais c'est agréable de voir la débrouillandise mélangée à un peu de fantaisie. Ayant vue ce film dans ma jeunesse cela me rappelle de ...Don't try this at home!!!!!! - movie_goer
What starts out is a potential great movie nothing too spectacular but mindless fun about a boy ( Christopher Collet) who's got the hots for his high school science classmate (Cynthia Nixon). Then it takes a sudden turn to serious Nuclear issues as John Lithgrow ...