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01/26/06
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
53 %
Reviews Counted: 17 Fresh: 9 Rotten:8 Average Rating: 5.2/10
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... [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
Screenwriter: Bruce Robinson, Roland Joffé
Story: Bruce Robinson
Producer: Tony Garnett
Composer: Ennio Morricone
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11/19/04
Serious film about the ethics of the men who ushered America into the nuclear age.
07/15/03
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05/20/03
Top Critic
Intersting, insightful histo-drama with Newman doing his job above and beyond what is called for.
08/01/02
[Fat Man] is not resoundingly disastrous. That would imply a certain energy.
01/01/00
The movie might actually have been good if it had been done with a little more pinnace.
01/01/00
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.
01/01/00
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