Oppenheimer is torn between his left-wing, security-risk mistress ( Natasha Richardson) and his adoring wife ( Bonnie Bedelia), who essentially thinks he is the greatest man alive and deserves anything he wants. The usual romantic subplots don't contribute much. After work, the scientists attend cocktail parties that seem to exist only to introduce minor characters, or they sit around holding earnest (but very brief) discussions that are so simplified by the screenplay that they sound like parodies. Most of the scientific details in the movie are reduced to scenes like the one where a young scientist ( John Cusack) triggers an experiment, holds his breath, and then relaxes when the world does not vaporize. 'Fat Man and Little Boy' simplifies this, too, by showing the social life but not the tension. 'The Day After Trinity' paints a picture of the community that grew up in Los Alamos, where the music of Glenn Miller and the popularity of the martini helped to break the tension after the day's work. Since the two men do not really violently disagree on anything, their conflict reduces itself to emotional speechmaking, which, when carefully listened to, is not really about anything. Groves is portrayed as a saner, gentler version of George Patton - gruff, barking orders - and Oppenheimer is seen as a brilliant but unworldly intellectual. Robert Oppenheimer ( Dwight Schultz), the scientific leader of the undertaking. 'Fat Man and Little Boy' reduces their debates to the childish level of Hollywood stereotyping, giving us a simplified personality conflict between Gen. The story of the birth of the bomb is one of high drama, but it was largely intellectual drama, as the scientists asked themselves, in conversations and nightmares, what terror they were unleashing on the Earth. In my review of 'The Day After Trinity,' I wrote that it 'delivers more suspense than most of the thrillers I have seen,' and now that we have a fiction film to compare it to, that is even more clear. It is 'The Day After Trinity' (1980), a documentary by Jon Else that includes government footage from Los Alamos as well as interviews, then and now, with many of the men who worked on the bomb. The movie labors under an enormous handicap: A much better, more intelligent and more exciting film has already been made about this same subject. 'Fat Man and Little Boy' is a fiction based on the Manhattan Project, but it is thin and unfocused and hardly even suggests the enormous moral and practical questions that the scientists wrestled with in the New Mexico desert. Germany surrendered before the bomb was finished, but it was used, of course, on Japan, and the shadow cast by its mushroom cloud still hovers over all of us today. Their endeavor was known as the Manhattan Project, and they were told they were in a race with Germany to build the first doomsday weapon.

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