Fat Man and Little Boy
by Roland Joff?
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Actor: Bonnie Bedelia, Dwight Schultz, John Cusack, Laura Dern, Paul NewmanDirector: Roland Joff?
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Writer: Roland Joff?
Editor: Fran?oise Bonnot
Producer: John Calley
Producer: Kimberly Cooper
Producer: Tony Garnett
Writer: Bruce Robinson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
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Movie Review: I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds
Summary: 4 Stars
Useful introduction for teachers to the Manhattan Project, the relationship between Groves and Oppenheimer, and the moral calamities faced by that first generation of atomic scientists. The film sometimes plays fast and loose with the sequence of events (Hollywood calls this "compression"), as in the case of a young scientist who dies of radiation sickness, but it's not as egregious as Gibson's "The Patriot". A good place to start with students born after 1995.
Summary of Fat Man and Little Boy
Despite the combined star power in front of and behind the camera, Fat Man and Little Boy is a largely tepid retelling of the history of the Manhattan Project, the atomic testing project that led to the U.S. bombing of Japan during World War II (said bombs were dubbed "Fat Man" and "Little Boy"). The Nevada-based project is headed by General Leslie R. Groves (a testy Paul Newman) and scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz of the TV series The A-Team), who later regretted his cooperation in the project. The problem with the film lies not with the acting, which includes solid performances by Bonnie Bedelia, Laura Dern, John Cusack, and future U.S. Senator Fred Dalton Thompson, but with the script by director Roland Joff? and Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I and Joff?'s The Killing Fields). A subject as morally complex as the creation of a supreme weapon requires a strong and thoughtful script, but Fat Man and Little Boy never gets further than establishing that indeed, atomic power is something to reckon with. Joseph Sargent's 1989 made-for-TV film Day One, with Brian Dennehy as Groves and David Straithairn as Oppenheimer, covers the same story with twice the depth and avoids the pitfall of a romantic subplot (Oppenheimer's dalliance with a communist played by Natasha Richardson), which this film stumbles into. Cusack's doomed scientist is actually a combination of two real-life physicists, Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotkin, who died from radiation poisoning, albeit long after V-J Day. --Paul GaitaDrama DVD Video
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