Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 181 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- atomic bomb
- patriotism
- new mexico
- world war ii
- atomic bomb test
- physics
- biography
- based on true story
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Cillian Murphy
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Emily Blunt
Kitty Oppenheimer
Matt Damon
Leslie Groves
Robert Downey Jr.
Lewis Strauss
- Florence Pugh — Jean Tatlock
- Josh Hartnett — Ernest Lawrence
- Casey Affleck — Boris Pash
- Rami Malek — David Hill
- Kenneth Branagh — Niels Bohr
- Benny Safdie — Edward Teller
- Jason Clarke — Roger Robb
- Dylan Arnold — Frank Oppenheimer
- Tom Conti — Albert Einstein
- James D'Arcy — Patrick Blackett
- David Dastmalchian — William Borden
- Directed
- Christopher Nolan
- Written
- Christopher Nolan
Production
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 · 12,419 ratings
- Studio
- Syncopy, Universal Pictures, Atlas Entertainment, Breakheart Films, Peters Creek Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
