Summary
Fat Man and Little Boy is an American war film first released in 1989,
directed by Roland Joffé.
The film stars Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack and Laura Dern.
It has also been released under the title: Shadow Makers.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
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Credits
- Director: Roland Joffé
- Script: Bruce Robinson, Roland Joffé
- Photo: Vilmos Zsigmond
- Music: Ennio Morricone
- Cast: Paul Newman (Gen. Leslie R. Groves), Dwight Schultz (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Bonnie Bedelia (Kitty Oppenheimer), John Cusack (Michael Merriman), Laura Dern (Kathleen Robinson), Ron Frazier (Peter de Silva), John C. McGinley (Capt. Richard Schoenfield, MD), Natasha Richardson (Jean Tatlock), Ron Vawter (Jamie Latrobe), Michael Brockman (William ’Deke’ Parsons), Del Close (Dr. Kenneth Whiteside), John Considine (Robert Tuckson), Allan Corduner (Franz Goethe), Joe D’Angerio (Seth Neddermeyer), Jon DeVries (Johnny Mount), James Eckhouse (Robert Harper), Todd Field (Robert Wilson), Mary Pat Gleason (Dora Welsh), Clark Gregg (Douglas Panton), Péter Halász (George Kistiakowsky), Gerald Hiken (Leo Szilard), Arthur Holden (Oak Ridge Doctor), Ed Lauter (Whitney Ashbridge), Donald MacKechnie (James Tuck), Madison Mason (Boris Pash), Krzysztof Pieczynski (Otto Frisch), Don Pugsley (Sgt. Bronston, Groves’ Orderly), Logan Ramsey (Brehon Somervell), Fred Dalton Thompson (Maj. Gen. Melrose Hayden Barry), Jim True-Frost (Donald Hornig), Barry Yourgrau (Edward Teller), Marek Alboszta (Scientist), Steven Baigelman (Dr. Avenell), Frank Benettieri Jr. (Messenger), Roger Cubicciotti (Frank Oppenheimer), Franco Cutietta (Enrico Fermi), Robert Peter Gale (Dr. Louis Hempelman), Wesley Harrison (Peter Oppenheimer), Brent Harrison (Peter Oppenheimer), Tom McFarlane (Scientist), David C. Parnes (Raincoat Man), Allen Poirson (Harold McDonald), David Politzer (Robert Serber), Bill Rubenstein (N.Y. Times Reporter), Ken Strausbaugh (Observation Officer), Walter Sullivan (Secretary of War Henry Stimson), Brian Wandell (Dennis Talmudge), John Williams (Mack Stoddard), Walker Edmiston, Matthew Faison, Stan Jones, Alan Oppenheimer
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Runtime: 127 min
- Aka: Shadow Makers
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