This is an epic biographical thriller of the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist credited with being the “father of the atomic bomb”. The story predominantly focuses on his studies, his direction of the Manhattan Project during World War II, and his eventual fall from grace due to his 1954 security hearing. It stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as his wife “Kitty”, Matt Damon as Leslie Groves, Head of the Manhattan Project, Robert Downey Jr. as U.S. Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss, and Florence Pugh as Oppenheimer’s communist lover Jean Tatlock. Running time: 180 mins.
NOTE EARLIER START TIME OF 7.30PM.