Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government secrecy and mutually assured destruction were key political and military issues.

• Gladden Entertainment
• 20th Century Fox
• John Lithgow
• Christopher Collet
• Cynthia Nixon
• Jill Eikenberry
• John Mahoney
• Richard Jenkins
• Robert Sean Leonard
• Steve Blum