Product Description

A dangerous game starts the clock ticking on a nuclear bomb. Can anyone stop Armageddon? This gripping doomsday story follows a high school science whiz who builds an atomic bomb as a prank only to trigger a horrifying race against time. Co-starring John Lithgow (A Civil Action), ChristopherCollet (The Langoliers) and Cynthia Nixon ('sex and the City ), The Manhattan Projectis intelligent and entertaining [with] a satisfyingly suspenseful finale (The Hollywood Reporter)! Teenage science genius Paul (Collet) realizes the lab of Dr. Mathewson (Lithgow), his mother's new boyfriend, isn't really developing lasers. It's building nuclear bombs. To expose the lab'ssecret mission, Paul and his girlfriend Jenny (Nixon) steal some plutonium, build a bomb and enter it in a science fair. But the military learns of Paul's plans and pursues him with lethal force. Now, as time is running out, only Dr. Mathewson can save Paul and stop the unthinkable from occurring!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46011 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-04-01
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 117 minutes

From Amazon.com
Directed and cowritten by Woody Allen collaborator Marshall Brickman, this comedy-thriller doesn't seem to know where it wants to go or what it wants to say (other than, obviously, nuclear weapons are scary things). Christopher Collet plays an overachieving high school student who decides to show just how dangerously easy it is to construct a nuclear device. He builds one for his science fair, using his mother's relationship with a government official (John Lithgow) to sneak into a secret facility and steal plutonium. When the feds find out what's going on, they overreact in a brutish showdown that threatens nuclear annihilation of everyone within a 10-mile radius. While the movie makes some antinuke points and features a strong performance by Lithgow, it seems a little too breezy, given what's going on. --Marshall Fine