That Film Stew Ep 432 - Oppenheimer (Review)

Experience the second half of the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon! Directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is the biographical thriller film based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin which chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who was pivotal in developing the first nuclear weapons. During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. (Matt Damon) appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history, ushering in the Atomic Age.