This was an interesting find...A gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair... I loved the character of Paul...this seemingly to smart for his own good kinda kid with a plesant disposition and a underlying cynical attitude...he ...( read more)
Christopher Collet,
Cynthia Nixon,
Jill Eikenberry,
John Lithgow,
John Mahoney
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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...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 4, 2002
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November 5, 2007
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September 30, 2008
A sort of cousing to "WarGames", this movie stars John Lithgow as a nuclear scientist who has developed the most pure form of plutonium known to man. The government sets him up in a laboratory in Ithaca, NY where he begins to date a local realtor played by Jill Eikenberry. Chisto...( read more)
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December 11, 2009
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November 26, 2009
"A Cult Classic", in the same way as "Office Space, Hackers,Idiocracy,Raw Deal", and many others."
A pretty msart and gripping thriller, but some scenes were pretty inadequate, or insufficent, and with that said, It is just a "Three Star Film", unlike i thought in the begginin...( read more) -
June 10, 2009
Contemporary comedy-adventure-thriller concerns a high-school youth who, with the aid of his idealistic girlfriend, steals some plutonium and makes his own nuclear bomb. There's a pleasing balance of humour and suspense.
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January 21, 2009
The U.S. government provides Dr. John Mathewson (John Lithgow) a laboratory called Medatomics is a medical company located near a suburban neighborhood in Ithaca, New York to meet a real estate agent Elizabeth Stephens (Jill Eikenberry) to seek an apartment.
Dr. John Mathewson i...( read more)
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