As others have written in reviews, I have an existential interest in the topic, my father had been fighting in the Pacific since late 1942. In that essential sense, I am grateful for what transpired, as opposed to the meat grinder that was going to be the Japanese home islands.
This film is slanted somewhat, but it is important to consider perspectives, and that's what it does. I think the most important line in the film comes very late in the movie, the doctor to Groves, "I've been to Oak Ridge...." We should all consider that. Worth a watch.
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Fat Man And Little Boy (DVD)
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- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 Ounces
- Director : Various
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
- Run time : 2 hours and 7 minutes
- Release date : May 21, 2013
- Actors : Various
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A historical drama that goes for the heart
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2020
I have actually been to the Hiroshima museum built remind us all of the power of the bomb. It's almost surreal because it is a quite immersive exhibition such that when you leave it, you cannot help but be exhilarated at how Hiroshima has been rebuilt. The museum is built right next to one of the few structures left standing. A dome that the bombers used as an aiming point for the airburst. There are countless enlarged photos showing the complete devastation so you are actually taken aback by how well Hiroshima recovered with skyscrapers towering around you. So this film has always touched me with it's portrayal of the key people involved with the creation of the two atomic devices used. Having watched every episode of Star Trek Next Generation it shocked me that Dwight Schultz portrayed Oppenheimer. Paul Newman was great as always but even the secondary characters played by John Cusack, Laura Dern and others were memorable. The film not only portrays events and circumstances, but uses the talented cast to dig into motivations and cost. Everything changed after what was created and this film attempts to give us feeling for what the people involved were feeling. I never hear anyone talk about this film but it definitlely touched me.
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2020
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2022
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2022
Four stars for entertainment, but only two for historical accuracy. I cannot help but feel it really deserves less, because it comes across as a bait-and-switch, after seemingly portrayed as actual history. While this is true to some extent, there is much that is not accurate. So yes, this movie is Fiction. Should I say it again? This movie is fiction, not actual history, albeit based upon a collection of historical events.
Being entertainment, this should not be a problem. But yet it is a problem, because for many viewers, this movie will clearly teach fiction as history, especially by mish-mashing timelines, events, fictional characters and fictional moral questions with actual historical facts.
Although there are several fictional elements, probably one of the bigger examples is the inclusion of one of the infamous "Tickling the Dragon" criticality incidents into the World War II timeline. This is not historically accurate, and did not happen until after the bombs were dropped on Japan, and the war was over. Yet, in the movie it happens during the development of Fat Man, killing a fictional character, rather than the actual physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, both of whom died at Los Alamos after similar but separate post-war criticality accidents. Somehow the move tries to make this ok by creating a new fictional character to time-warp the accident into the movie. Simply sad, when there is already plenty of good historically accurate material available already. And I won't even get into the many props and vehicles which seemed to have traveled back from the future - but honestly, I think I can excuse that.
In summary, Fat Man and Little Boy is good (but not great) entertainment, but importantly and unfortunately, this doppelganger of a movie brings significant fiction, time-travel, and even some historically non-existent moral questions into a perceived actual historical context, thus inoculating the typical innocent viewer with an inaccurate version of history which they will probably never shake - simply a disservice to the casual viewer, the Manhattan Project, and the world.
Being entertainment, this should not be a problem. But yet it is a problem, because for many viewers, this movie will clearly teach fiction as history, especially by mish-mashing timelines, events, fictional characters and fictional moral questions with actual historical facts.
Although there are several fictional elements, probably one of the bigger examples is the inclusion of one of the infamous "Tickling the Dragon" criticality incidents into the World War II timeline. This is not historically accurate, and did not happen until after the bombs were dropped on Japan, and the war was over. Yet, in the movie it happens during the development of Fat Man, killing a fictional character, rather than the actual physicists Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin, both of whom died at Los Alamos after similar but separate post-war criticality accidents. Somehow the move tries to make this ok by creating a new fictional character to time-warp the accident into the movie. Simply sad, when there is already plenty of good historically accurate material available already. And I won't even get into the many props and vehicles which seemed to have traveled back from the future - but honestly, I think I can excuse that.
In summary, Fat Man and Little Boy is good (but not great) entertainment, but importantly and unfortunately, this doppelganger of a movie brings significant fiction, time-travel, and even some historically non-existent moral questions into a perceived actual historical context, thus inoculating the typical innocent viewer with an inaccurate version of history which they will probably never shake - simply a disservice to the casual viewer, the Manhattan Project, and the world.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 24, 2022
This was a very authentic movie, great acting, compelling story, and a good moral debate about what we were creating. Not mentioned were the 1 M American causalities anticipated if we had to invade Japan, including perhaps the life of my father. He was in Seattle waiting to be shipped to the Pacific theater in August 1945 when the bombs were dropped. Highly recommend this film.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 29, 2021
This is one of those essential stories that every New Mexican should know, since it happened right here in what we like to call the Land of Enchantment. Of course, it is a story for all the world’s citizens. I’ve driven through the place that does not exist, at least during World War II secrecy, Los Alamos, numerous times, simply to take some prosaic hikes in the Jemez Mountains. There is still security in the town, and it is required to show your driver’s license, one of the very few such places in the United States. In Albuquerque, we have a good “Atomic Museum” that tells the story and I’ve seen an excellent play here that focused on Oppenheimer’s philandering and the associatef security concerns. By far, the best account on the Making of the Atomic Bomb is the eponymously entitled book by Richard Rhodes, which I read and reviewed in 2015.
This visual account added to my understanding and provided some additional nuances. Fortunately the “trivia” section of the movie provided the true information on the events, when the film veered towards dramatic liberties. For example, John Cusack plays Michael Merriman, who is a composite of several real figures. There was a terrible death due to an accident with radiation during an experiment, but it happened after the war, and not before the end of it, as depicted in the movie.
The movie was directed by Roland Joffe and released in 1989. Fortunately I saw it just in time, because Amazon has now removed it from Prime, and it is not even available for pay view. Paul Newman dominates the stage, playing General Leslie Groves, who pulls the key players together and ensures there is security on the “place that does not exist.” Dwight Schultz plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, who almost seems to be in a secondary role, unlike most accounts. Schultz did not seem to be typecast very well: not craggy enough, not intellectual enough. And he never utters that famous line attributed to Oppenheimer: “Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” (Oppenheimer had learned Sanskrit so he could read the Bhagavad-Gita in the original, from which that line originates.) And the trivia section indicated that in real life Schultz was a conservative, playing the liberal Oppenheimer, and Newman was a liberal, playing the conservative Groves.
I had known that the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan were called Fat Man and Little Boy, the title to the movie, but I always assumed the names were derived solely from their shape. Turns out they come from a movie I have just watched, “The Maltese Falcon,” starring Humphrey Bogart. Two of the crooks in the movie went by those nicknames and were Kasper Gutman and Wilmer Cook.
As indicated above, I’ve driven up the road in the movie towards Los Alamos many times… or so I thought! The credits informed me however that I had not: the movie was filmed in Durango, Mexico, but they selected an almost perfect match for the topography around Los Alamos.
Bonnie Bedelia plays Kitty Oppenheimer, the wife who has had to make accommodations with Oppenheimer’s long-term relationship with his lover, the “commie,” Jean Tatlock, off in San Francisco. (Guess Groves had to make his own accommodations too, as the movie shows.) Kitty uses a profanity for her husband’s prime member, asking him if it was “guilty.” He asks her if she must be so vulgar. She retorts: Nothing is as vulgar as what you are building.
A good movie on one of the essential stories of the modern era. 5-stars.
This visual account added to my understanding and provided some additional nuances. Fortunately the “trivia” section of the movie provided the true information on the events, when the film veered towards dramatic liberties. For example, John Cusack plays Michael Merriman, who is a composite of several real figures. There was a terrible death due to an accident with radiation during an experiment, but it happened after the war, and not before the end of it, as depicted in the movie.
The movie was directed by Roland Joffe and released in 1989. Fortunately I saw it just in time, because Amazon has now removed it from Prime, and it is not even available for pay view. Paul Newman dominates the stage, playing General Leslie Groves, who pulls the key players together and ensures there is security on the “place that does not exist.” Dwight Schultz plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, who almost seems to be in a secondary role, unlike most accounts. Schultz did not seem to be typecast very well: not craggy enough, not intellectual enough. And he never utters that famous line attributed to Oppenheimer: “Now I have become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” (Oppenheimer had learned Sanskrit so he could read the Bhagavad-Gita in the original, from which that line originates.) And the trivia section indicated that in real life Schultz was a conservative, playing the liberal Oppenheimer, and Newman was a liberal, playing the conservative Groves.
I had known that the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan were called Fat Man and Little Boy, the title to the movie, but I always assumed the names were derived solely from their shape. Turns out they come from a movie I have just watched, “The Maltese Falcon,” starring Humphrey Bogart. Two of the crooks in the movie went by those nicknames and were Kasper Gutman and Wilmer Cook.
As indicated above, I’ve driven up the road in the movie towards Los Alamos many times… or so I thought! The credits informed me however that I had not: the movie was filmed in Durango, Mexico, but they selected an almost perfect match for the topography around Los Alamos.
Bonnie Bedelia plays Kitty Oppenheimer, the wife who has had to make accommodations with Oppenheimer’s long-term relationship with his lover, the “commie,” Jean Tatlock, off in San Francisco. (Guess Groves had to make his own accommodations too, as the movie shows.) Kitty uses a profanity for her husband’s prime member, asking him if it was “guilty.” He asks her if she must be so vulgar. She retorts: Nothing is as vulgar as what you are building.
A good movie on one of the essential stories of the modern era. 5-stars.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 20, 2022
An older Paul Newman plays a very dogged and focused General Graves, who stayed with the Manhattan Project until it produced two bombs, Little Boy (Hiroshima) and Fat Man (Nagasaki). Dramatic, and very important historic reality!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 27, 2022
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anthony cook
2.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing you don't already know
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 17, 2019
Good story but no real footage of the bombs going off etc. Howling mad murdoch from the a-team plays an excellent part. I was expecting him to jump in a plane and drop the bomb for testing purposes but that never happened. Missed opportunity perhaps?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
The BIG one!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 23, 2021
The epic struggle to find solutions to make the first nuclear bomb in history with the smartest minds ever assembled. Good all star cast fine acting. Watching history in the making!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well produced and directed production of the development of the ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 26, 2017
Well produced and directed production of the development of the nuclear weapons started before and during WWII showing the constraints upon and by the military and so forth without condemnation of them. Informative without being over dramatic.
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Zdenek Hanzlik
4.0 out of 5 stars
I like this movie
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 5, 2017
Probably movie about how it was at Los Alamos in real. rather difficult to comprehend Gen Groves and Paul Newman version of him. Attempt for Oppenheimer is rather flat.Environmental Informations are interesting
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tsarina
4.0 out of 5 stars
Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 15, 2016
A good, well-flowing film - just a little "staged" in some of its acting - but a well-worth buy
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