A dangerous game starts the clock ticking on nuclear bomb. Can anyone stop this Armageddon? In this gripping doomsday thriller, high school science whiz kid builds an atomic bomb as a prank... only to trigger a horrifying race against time. "The Manhattan Project" is "intelligent and entertaining [with] a satisfying, suspenseful finale" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Teenage science genius Paul (Christopher Collet) realizes the lab of Dr. Mathewson (John Lithgow) his mother's (Jill Eikenberry) new boyfriend, isn't really developing lasers as he has claimed. it's building nuclear bombs. To expose the lab's secret mission, Paul and his girlfriend Jenny (Cynthia Nixon) steal some plutonium, build a bomb and enter it in a science fair. But the military learns of Paul's plans and pursues him with lethal intent. Now, as time is running out, only Dr. Mathewson can save Paul... and stop the unthinkable from occurring!