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Fat Man and Little Boy
The story of the extraordinary people who changed our world.
The story of the extraordinary people who changed our world.
Drama, History, War - 1989
Fat Man and Little Boy
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Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. Groves selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Director:
,
Roland Joffé
Cast:
,
John Cusack
,
Paul Newman
,
Laura Dern
,
Bonnie Bedelia
,
John C. McGinley
,
Natasha Richardson
,
Dwight Schultz
,
Ron Vawter
,
Ron Frazier
,
Michael Brockman

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Rated:
PG-13
Runtime:
127 min
Release date:
20 Oct 1989
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 nominations.

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
Fat Man and Little Boy is a fiction based on the Manhattan Project, but it is thin and unfocused and hardly even suggests the enormous moral and practical questions that the scientists wrestled with in the New Mexico desert.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
[Fat Man] is not resoundingly disastrous. That would imply a certain energy.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
A singular, powerful experience.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
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