Main specs
Actor(s): Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, Natasha Richardson, John C. McGinley
Director(s): Roland Joffe
Genre: Drama
Classification: Parental Guidance
Production Year: 1989
Running Time: 2 hours 1 minute
Video Category: Feature Film
Plot: A story based on America dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. General Groves is ordered to ensure that America wins the war. He assembles the world's best scientists in a small town of Mexico with Doctor Robert Oppenheimer and sets to work on the creation of the atomic bomb.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)
Studio(s): PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES
Release date: 05/07/2004
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: PHE 8448
Barcode: 5014437844835
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Director of Photography: Vilmos Zsigmond
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DVD Description
Director Roland Joffe's SHADOW MAKERS is a historical drama about the lives of the participants in the Manhattan Project--the making and perfecting of the atomic bomb that took place in New Mexico during World War II. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie Groves, a hardened and cynical soldier who oversees the project while working with its leading scientist, the brilliant J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz). As the scientists come closer to controlling the awesome force of nuclear power, lives are torn apart and families destroyed by the fear and tension created by the ethical and moral dilemma surrounding the project. This exhilarating and harrowing drama depicts a strange dichotomy between the brilliant but naive scientists who created the bomb and the power-hungry government, who had only an archaic understanding of the way their actions would change the nature of war.
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