The Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project

Paul Stevens' high school science project has gotten a little out of hand. He just built an atomic bomb. Now he's got 11 hours to make sure it doesn't work.

1986118 min6.2 / 10

A high-concept thriller about a brilliant teenager's dangerous gambit to build a nuclear bomb and expose government secrets, balancing youthful audacity with genuine peril.

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.

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