Fat Man And Little Boy

Despite the considerable creative and technical talents of those involved, FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY is slow, stilted, and stultifying. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, the tough-minded career soldier who oversees the Manhattan Project, which was to create the atomic bomb. The liaison between scientists and military is physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz), whose left-leaning political past and affair with radical Jean Tatlock (Natasha Richardson) have brought him under constant government scrutiny. Ironically, Groves, a dyed-in-the-wool patriot, finds himself in the position of defending Oppenheimer from his detractors. Besides the uneasy relations...