“The Manhattan Project” quotes
(1986)
Title The Manhattan Project
Year 1986
Director Marshall Brickman
Genre Sci-Fi, Thriller
Year 1986
Director Marshall Brickman
Genre Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot – A boy is particularly attracted by nuclear physics and dreams to go to university. He knows everything about atoms, neurons and protons and his room is full of books and magazines about it. He knows even how to create a plutonium reactor at home. Driven by curiosity, he subtracts a small amount of radioactive material to develop a deadly weapon. Once finished it, he has to find a secure way to prove his skills.
All actors – John Lithgow, Richard Council, Robert Schenkkan, Paul Austin, Adrian Sparks, Curt Dempster, Bran Ferren, Christopher Collet, Jill Eikenberry, Cynthia Nixon, Gregg Edelman, Abraham Unger
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“- Paul Stephens: Who's Anne Frank?
- Jenny Anderman: Um, a girl in my English class.”“You are what you are, Doctor - a son of a bitch, like the rest of us. Now do what needs to be done.”
“Anybody want to make a bet?”
“I never thought I'd say this to anybody, but I got to go get the atomic bomb out of the car.”
“- Jenny Anderman: If we get killed we won't have any future.
- Paul Stephens: Of course we will. You always have a future.”This isn't funny. Do you know what this is like? It's like when you read about, I don't know, Anne Frank or something and you say to yourself: "Jesus why didn't they do something". The whole world is collapsing. They just sat around, life as usual, maybe it'll go away, but it never goes away it only gets worse and nobody thinks about the future.
“- John Matthewson: You people really live in your own world, don't you?
- Lt. Col. Conroy: Well, we don't have the luxury of living in yours.”“- Elizabeth Stephens: Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?
- Paul Stephens: Only a little one.”
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