Fat Man and Little Boy

Fat Man And Little Boy were the code names of the two atomic bombs that were dropped in reverse order on Nagasaki and Hiroshina. How these came to be and came to be in American hands is the story of... Full review

I find it remarkable that so little was actually done with the story of the a-bomb and it's development for decades after the Manhattan Project was completed. My suspicion is that this was due to serious fears in the movie... Full review

It was a fascinating story waiting to be told. FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY takes us inside the trials and tribulations of a group of top American scientists handed a lofty task during the Second World War: beat everyone else... Full review

This is a weird and compelling film. The topic, about the atom bombs created at Los Alamos, NM in the USA and used on Japan during the latter part of World War II, is huge, and of course deeply disturbing. The... Full review

Having worked with all historical aspects of nuclear energy, radiation, etc. for 11 Years ( including working with the US D.O.E - Department of Energy during the cleanup of the Chicago site ), I found this film to be VERY... Full review

There have been numerous productions that tell of the development of the atomic bomb. The Robert Taylor film ABOVE AND BEYOND (flag waving interservice propaganda really; if you believe this one you think that the Army Air Corps, in the... Full review

I saw the movie and it was ok. I enjoyed parts of it but then again there were other parts that really didn't make any sense. Besides that the fact that they re-enacted the Manhattan Project and was actually pretty accurate... Full review

I saw the movie and it was ok. I enjoyed parts of it but then again there were other parts that really didn't make any sense. Besides that the fact that they re-enacted the Manhattan Project and was actually pretty accurate... Full review

I certainly disagree with the last user comment. I can't speak to the complete accuracy of the events but I do know there was debate at the time over whether the project should be used or even completed. The film... Full review

Cold War enthusiasts are like Civil War enthusiasts in that they get extremely upset when something is portrayed differently than it actually happened (or differently than they THINK it happened). When you read a negative review of this movie, that... Full review

On balance, "Fat Man and Little Boy" is a major disappointment.....Laura Dern is also effective as the nurse in love with Cusack, a sappy role....MST One problem with "Fat Man and Little Boy" is that it's redundant..... ... Full Review

The cast of characters is enormous, and few receive enough development or screen time. Similarly good is Dwight Schultz. It's a bad idea to look to a movie, any movie ... Full Review

What "Fat Man and Little Boy" tells us is potent and essential. This is far from revolutionary thinking, but it is an unusual human perspective, and it's what makes "Fat Man and Little Boy" such a singular, powerful experience. ... Full Review

To a brain, the movie is slightly fascinating to watch.....I don't care to watch a bad two-hour long film about it.....To a philosopher, the movie might be interesting.....The movie might actually have been good....Now I like Cusack and I love Dern.... ... Full Review

But the movie is cobbled together so ineptly that Cusack's death scene is intercut with the night of the first bomb test and is so thoroughly upstaged that it never really gets the emotional reaction it deserves. If "Big Man and Little Boy" had simply recycled the dialogue and the incredibly exciting events of that day, it would have had an ending. ... Full Review

Since the age of 11, I've been fascinated by the end of the world.Not in any sort of morbid way, mind you.Not in the Heaven's Gate/Aum Shinrikyo/Dale Earnhardt death-cult sort of way. ... Full Article

The trouble with true stories is a subject I like to tackle.I really hit it hard with Patch Adams , which was idiotic enough to use "based on a true story" as its tag line. ... Full Article

From Amazon : 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... ... Full Article