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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Content Advisory: Mild Violence, Questionable for Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1986 DVD Release: 06/04/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 58 mins Studio: MGM Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Thriller, Teen Movie, Message Movie, Paranoid Thriller See Also: The Manhattan Project

Everyone knows that teenagers are smarter than adults, and if given a chance the kids could save the world--if they don't blow it to bits first. The Manhattan Project tells of how 16-year-old Christopher Collet tries to alert his community to the dangers of nuclear energy. John Lithgow, a doctor in a pharmaceutical research plant wherein covert plutonium experiments are taking place, is the boy friend of Cowlet's mom Jill Eikenberry. While Lithgow is romantically occupied, Cowlet and his girl Cynthia Nixon steal the plutonium and construct their own atomic bomb. They do this, of course, as a warning to foolhardy grownups--none more foolhardy than the folks who put up good money to make this film. Manhattan Project was directed by longtime Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman, whose expert sense of comic timing obscures the thickheaded "message" of this picture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

John Lithgow - John Mathewson
Christopher Collet - Paul Stephens
Cynthia Nixon - Jenny Anderman
Jill Eikenberry - Elizabeth Stephens
John Mahoney - Lieutenant Colonel Conroy

John Lithgow stars in the nuclear action-drama The Manhattan Project. MGM's work on this 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer (with a full-frame transfer on side B) is nice, even with a small amount of grain and edge enhancement popping up in the picture. Overall, the transfer includes bright colors, dark black levels, and well-maintained flesh tones. The soundtrack is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo in English and is uniformly flat and uninspired. While there are a few effects that bounce back and forth though the front speakers, overall this is a very mono-inspired soundtrack with little in the way of range or depth. Also included on this disc are English, Spanish, and French subtitles. The extra features on this disc are lingering at the bare minimum -- all the consumer gets for his money is a measly theatrical trailer for the film. ~ Patrick Naugle, All Movie Guide