The Manhattan Project is a science fiction thriller movie from the United States that was released in 1986. The plot centers around a bright high school kid who decides to build an atomic bomb for a national science fair and is named after the World War II-era program that built the first atomic bombs.
Marshall Brickman directed the movie, which stars Christopher Collet, John Lithgow, John Mahoney, Jill Eikenberry, and Cynthia Nixon and was based on his screenplay co-written with Thomas Baum. This picture was the first from the short-lived Gladden Entertainment, and it was a box-office flop that only recovered 21% of its budget.
Marshall Brickman, the film’s director, and screenplay co-writer had made a name for himself as a co-writer on several Woody Allen movies. Following the comedies Simon (1980) and Lovesick (1986), The Manhattan Project was his third picture as a filmmaker (1983).
In and around New York City, including Rockland County, the municipality of Suffern, and the INCO, Ltd. Research and Development Center in the hamlet of Sterling Forest, the Manhattan Project was filmed. The creators organized a real science fair at the New York Penta Hotel, offering $75 to each kid who ‘participated in the science fair and donated their own personally produced projects.’ During its initial year of distribution, the film was rented out to cinemas in the United States for $2 million.
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