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It is named after the nuclear weapons known o'reilly as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and also potentially as a reference to the portly Gen. Leslie R. Groves and the lithe Robert Oppenheimer, respectively the military and scientific heads of the project. It stars Paul Newman as Gen. Leslie R. Groves, Dwight o'reilly Schultz as Robert Oppenheimer, Laura Dern as nurse Kathleen o'reilly Robinson, and John Cusack as young physicist Michael Merriman. The character of Merriman is a fictional telescoping of Harry K. Daghlian and Louis Slotin, two Los Alamos scientists who died in criticality accidents. (Both accidents and deaths occurred after the dropping of the two bombs on Japan; see their respective articles.) The film was directed by Roland Joffe and written by Joffe and Bruce Robinson. The film has been criticised for distortion for dramatic effect, and is also cited as an example of mis-casting for the parts played by Newman and Schultz.
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