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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

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Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 9  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.2/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, Laura Dern, John Cusack

Director: Roland Joffé
Screenwriter: Bruce Robinson, Roland Joffé
Story: Bruce Robinson
Producer: Tony Garnett
Composer: Ennio Morricone

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 4, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Surround - English
  • Dolby Surround - French

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

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01/26/06
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06/07/05
Emanuel Levy
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11/19/04
Matthew Callan
PopMatters
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02/13/04
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly
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3/5

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12/05/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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2/5

Disappointing biopic about A-bomb creation

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11/07/03
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World
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Serious film about the ethics of the men who ushered America into the nuclear age.

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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3/5

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02/28/03
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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3/5

An interesting historical drama, but lacks the personal touch.

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12/25/02
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
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2/5

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08/09/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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3/5

Intersting, insightful histo-drama with Newman doing his job above and beyond what is called for.

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08/01/02
Michael Clawson
West Valley View
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07/26/02
David Poland
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07/26/02
Bob Grimm
Las Vegas Mercury
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3/5

A bit clinical, but also quite enlightening.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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2/4

It's just too distanced to allow us to get involved.

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01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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[Fat Man] is not resoundingly disastrous. That would imply a certain energy.

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Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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A singular, powerful experience.

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Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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The movie might actually have been good if it had been done with a little more pinnace.

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01/01/00
James Brundage
Filmcritic.com
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Fat Man and Little Boy is a fiction based on the Manhattan Project, but it is thin and unfocused and hardly even suggests the enormous moral and practical questions that the scientists wrestled with in the New Mexico desert.

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01/01/00
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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