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Fat Man and Little Boy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roland Joffé released in USA on 20 october 1989 with Paul Newman
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
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Add to a movie listFat Man and Little Boy (a.k.a. Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after the weapons "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The code names, originally Fat Man and Thin Man, were drawn from characters in the works of Dashiell Hammett. However, there's a possible secondary allusion to stout project director Gen. Leslie Groves and the slim scientific director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film focuses much attention on the frequently strained relationship between the two men.
The film was directed by Roland Joffé and written by Joffe and Bruce Robinson.
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In September 1942, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers General Leslie Groves (Paul Newman) who oversaw construction of the Pentagon is assigned to head the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, to beat the Germans in building an atomic bomb.Actors
Paul Newman
(Gen. Leslie R. Groves)
Dwight Schultz
(J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Bonnie Bedelia
(Kitty Oppenheimer)
John Cusack
(Michael Merriman)
Ron Vawter
(Jamie Latrobe)
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