Fat Man and Little Boy: Living or Dead?

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By Adder Lovelace

Updated 18 March 2023

Image info

Artist	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Credit	https://www.lanl.gov/history/gallery.php?story_id=46&subject=directors&director=Oppenheimer&page_num=&row_num=0&photo_id=124
License	pd
Desc	In September 1945, many participants returned to the Trinity Test site for news crews. Here Oppenheimer and Groves examine the remains of one the bases of the steel test tower.
Usage	Public domain

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1989 film by Roland Joffé

Fat Man and Little Boy

Released	1989 (33 years, 4 months ago)

Director	Roland Joffé
Duration	127 minutes
Genre	war film and drama film
Composer	Ennio Morricone
Production company	Paramount Pictures
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	Bruce Robinson
Producer	Tony Garnett

About Fat Man and Little Boy

Fat Man and Little Boy (a.k.a. Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after the weapons "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" that were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The code names, originally Fat Man and Thin Man, were drawn from characters in the works of Dashiell Hammett. However, there's a possible secondary allusion to stout project director Gen. Leslie Groves and the slim scientific director, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film focuses much attention on the frequently strained relationship between the two men.

The film was directed by Roland Joffé and written by Joffe and Bruce Robinson.