• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1986-06-13
  • Runtime118 minutes
  • TaglinePaul Stevens' high school science project has gotten a little out of hand. He just built an atomic bomb. Now he's got 11 hours to make sure it doesn't work.
  • Revenue3,900,000$
  • GenreScience Fiction, Thriller
  • Production
    CompaniesGladden Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
  • Budget18,000,000$

Movie Overview

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.

Casts

John Lithgow

Christopher Collet

Cynthia Nixon

Jill Eikenberry

John Mahoney

Richard Jenkins

Robert Sean Leonard

Steve Blum

Robert Schenkkan

Richard Council

Fred Melamed