Manhattan Project (movie)

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The Manhattan Project (1986 film)

Directed by Marshall Brickman

Starring John Lithgow, Christopher Collet, Jill Eikenberry, Cynthia Nixon

Dr. Matthewson

• "It's the purest plutonium in the universe. Pretty, isn't it?"

• "I happen to have access to one of the sexiest lasers on the eastern seaboard."

• (Elizabeth to Matthewson) "And you're interested in a one bedroom sublet, furnished? Any special requirements?"
  (Matthewson) "It should be quiet and in an English-speaking country."

• (Matthewson) "This is terrible, I feel like a perfect ass."
  (Elizabeth) "Nobody's perfect."

• "Oh, what did you want us to do? Put up a neon sign that says 'Secret Weapons Laboratory'?"

• "You try to tough it out with them, they'll lock you in a room and throw away the room."

Paul

• "Jenny. I love you, Jenny. I wanna be your wife."

• "I never thought I'd say this to anyone, but I have to go get the atomic bomb from out of the trunk of the car."

• "Hey, Mister, I betcha can't guess what I've got in this box. An atomic bomb."

Other

• (speaking about Dr. Matthewson) "He'd get the nobel if he could publish."
  "Publish?"
  "I said 'if'."

• (Jenny) "A five-leaf clover. Where did you find it?"
  (Paul) "Growing outside that lab. You know the odds of that kind of mutation happening naturally, without chemicals or radiation or something?"
  (Jenny) "What?"
  (Paul) "There are none. I looked it up, it's like a billion to one. It never happens."
  (Jenny) "Maybe you're just very lucky." - Paul hands Jenny a mass of five-leaf clover. - "Oh my God."

• (scientist) "Water, citric acid, sodium laureth sulfate, hydrolyzed animal protein, glycerin, USFDA coloring #5."
  (Matthewson) "What the hell is it?"
  (scientist) "It's shampoo."

• "What's the problem? Was he sexually abusing the hamsters or something?"

• (Eccles) "I invented a way of using insects as a dietary suppliment for humans. Beetles, ants, mosquitoes. You grind them up -- low cholesterol."
  (Jeffery) "Shut up, Eccles. That's disgusting. My project is quite fascinating. I took six common toads and froze them in liquid nitrogen for six months."

• "Life, my dear, is more than just freezing toads."

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