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That wouldn't matter, of course, if "Fat Man and Little Boy" were a knockout movie, and alan corduner the audience has every right to expect that, given the star power (Paul Newman), co-writer/director (Roland Joffe, "The Killing alan corduner Fields"), cinematographer (Vilmos Zsigmond, "Close Encounters"), etc., attached to the project. But "Fat Man and Little Boy" falls short alan corduner somewhere, a distanced examination of the two years scientists spent holed up in Los Alamos, N.M., creating the world's first atomic bombs. In the end, that's the problem. It's just too distanced to allow us to get involved. ("Fat Man" was the bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945; "Little Boy" was the bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later.) Newman is Gen. Leslie Groves, the man chosen to pick the scientist to head up the $2 billion Manhattan Project — and he, of course, picks Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz). Oppenheimer in turn chooses the most brilliant physicists available to crack the problems inherent to creating the bomb.
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