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Release Date
Oct 20, 1989 (USA)
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 27, 2004
MPAA Rating
PG13
Running Time
2 hours, 7 minutes
Country USA
Studio Lightmotive Productions, Paramount
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Other Titles
• Fat Man and Little Boy
• Shadow Makers (1989)
• Die Schattenmacher (1990)
• Shadowmakers
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Genre: Drama, World War II, Military, Biography, Period Piece
Tagline: The story of the extraordinary people who changed our world.
Plot: Director Roland Joffé's FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY is a historical drama about the lives of the participants in the Manhattan Project--the making and perfecting of the atomic bomb that took place in New Mexico during World War II. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie Groves, a hardened and cynical soldier who oversees the project while working with its leading scientist, the brilliant J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz). As the scientists come closer to controlling the awesome force of nuclear power, lives are torn apart and families destroyed by the fear and tension created by the ethical and moral dilemma surrounding the project. This exhilarating and harrowing drama depicts a strange dichotomy between the brilliant but naive scientists who created the bomb and the power-hungry government, who had only an archaic understanding of the way their actions would change the nature of war.
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| Directed by |
Roland Joffé
The Killing Fields, The Mission, The Scarlet Letter |
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| Cast |
Paul Newman
Road to Perdition, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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 | John Cusack
Being John Malkovich, High Fidelity, Stand by Me |
 | Laura Dern
Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Blue Velvet |
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| Music By |
Ennio Morricone
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables, Once Upon a Time in America |
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