The film Oppenheimer is about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who is credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project—the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons.
The film is based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. It chronicles Oppenheimer's career, with the story predominantly focusing 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.
Oppenheimer is directed by Christopher Nolan, and it stars Cillian Murphy as the titular character. The film also features an ensemble cast that includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, and Rami Malek.
Oppenheimer is a complex and challenging film that explores the moral dilemmas of scientific progress. It is a film that will stay with you long after you have seen it.
Here are some of the themes that the film is likely to explore:
- The responsibility of scientists to use their knowledge for good or for evil.
- The dangers of nuclear weapons and the need for nuclear disarmament.
-The personal and professional consequences of making life-changing decisions. - The nature of genius and the price of greatness.
Oppenheimer is a film that is sure to spark discussion and debate. It is a film that will challenge us to think about the world around us in new ways.
Cast
- Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist and director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Emily Blunt as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer's wife and a former Communist Party USA member.
- Matt Damon as Gen. Leslie Groves, a USACE officer and director of the Manhattan Project.
- Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a high-ranking member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
- Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, a psychiatrist, Communist Party USA member, and Robert Oppenheimer's romantic interest.
- Josh Hartnett as Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel-winning nuclear physicist who worked with Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Casey Affleck as Boris Pash, a U.S. Army military intelligence officer and commander of the Alsos Mission.
- Rami Malek as David L. Hill, a nuclear physicist at the Met Lab, who helped to create the Chicago Pile.
- Kenneth Branagh as Niels Bohr, a Nobel-winning physicist, philosopher and Oppenheimer's personal idol.
- Benny Safdie as Edward Teller, a Hungarian theoretical physicist known for being the "father of the hydrogen bomb".
- Jason Clarke as Roger Robb, an attorney and future U.S. circuit judge who served as special counsel to the AEC at Oppenheimer's security hearing.
- Dylan Arnold as Frank Oppenheimer, Robert's younger brother and a particle physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Tom Conti as Albert Einstein, Nobel-winning theoretical physicist known for developing the theory of relativity.
- James D'Arcy as Patrick Blackett, Oppenheimer's college professor and Nobel-winning physicist at Cambridge University.
- David Dastmalchian as William L. Borden, a lawyer and executive director of the JCAE.
Dane DeHaan as Maj Gen. Kenneth Nichols, a U.S. Army officer and the deputy district engineer of the Manhattan Project. - Alden Ehrenreich as a Senate aide to Lewis Strauss, a fictional character who is an aide during Strauss's nomination for United States Secretary of Commerce.
- Tony Goldwyn as Gordon Gray, a government official and chairman of the committee deciding the revoking of Oppenheimer security clearance.
- Jefferson Hall as Haakon Chevalier, a Berkeley professor who became friends with Oppenheimer at university.
- David Krumholtz as Isidor Isaac Rabi, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked as a consultant on the Manhattan Project.
- Matthew Modine as Vannevar Bush, head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development.
Scott Grimes as Counsel to Lewis Strauss - Kurt Koehler as Thomas A. Morgan, an industrialist and former chairman of the board of the Sperry Corporation who was one of the panel members at Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing.
- John Gowans as Ward V. Evans, who served as one of the panel members at Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing.
- Macon Blair as Lloyd K. Garrison, a lawyer who helped to represent Oppenheimer at his security clearance hearing.
- Harry Groener as Sen. Gale W. McGee
- Gregory Jbara as Sen. Warren Magnuson, Chairman, Senate Commerce Committee
- Tim DeKay as Sen. John Pastore
- Matthias Schweighöfer as Werner Heisenberg, a German Nobel Prize-winning physicist who worked in the country's nuclear weapons program during World War II.
- Alex Wolff as Luis Walter Alvarez, a Nobel-winning physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Josh Zuckerman as Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz, a physicist who became Oppenheimer's protégé at Berkeley.
- Rory Keane as Hartland Snyder, a physicist, who collaborated with Oppenheimer to calculate the gravitational collapse of a dust particle sphere.
- Michael Angarano as Robert Serber, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Emma Dumont as Jackie Oppenheimer, Frank's wife and Robert's sister-in-law.
- Guy Burnet as George Eltenton, a chemical engineer in the U.S. with ties to the Soviet Union.
- Louise Lombard as Ruth Tolman, a psychologist close to Oppenheimer during the development of the atomic bomb.
- Tom Jenkins as Richard C. Tolman, Ruth's husband and General Groves' chief scientific adviser on the Manhattan Project.
- Olli Haaskivi as Edward Condon, a nuclear physicist who helped with the development of radar and briefly took part in the Manhattan Project.
- David Rysdahl as Donald Hornig, a chemist who worked on the firing unit at Los Alamos.
- Josh Peck as Kenneth Bainbridge, a physicist who was the director of the Manhattan Project's Trinity nuclear test.
- Jack Quaid as Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist who worked in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.
- Gustaf Skarsgård as Hans Bethe, a German-American Nobel-winning theoretical physicist and the head of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos.
- James Urbaniak as Kurt Gödel, a mathematician known for his theorems that revolutionized mathematics and had far-reaching implications for philosophy and computer science.
- Trond Fausa as George Kistiakowsky, a Harvard professor who took part in the Manhattan Project
- Devon Bostick as Seth Neddermeyer, a physicist who discovered the muon and advocated for the implosion-type nuclear weapon used in the Trinity Test.
- Danny Deferrari as Enrico Fermi, an Italian Nobel-winning physicist and creator of the Chicago Pile.
- Christopher Denham as Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Jessica Erin Martin as Charlotte Serber, head technical librarian at Los Alamos.
- Ronald Auguste as J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., an African American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician who worked with Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project.
- Máté Haumann as Leo Szilard, a Hungarian physicist who postulated that a nuclear chain reaction and atomic bomb could be created in 1934.
- Olivia Thirlby as Lilli Hornig, a Czech-American scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Jack Cutmore-Scott as Security Officer Lyall Johnson, a security officer at Berkeley who worked at the Manhattan Project.
- Harrison Gilbertson as Philip Morrison, a physics professor who worked on the Manhattan Project.
- James Remar as Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War under President Truman.
- Will Roberts as George C. Marshall, a United States general who served as a key figure in the country's atomic weapons program.
- Pat Skipper as Secretary of State James F. Byrnes
- Gary Oldman as Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States.
- Hap Lawrence as Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President of the United States.
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Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Box Office Gross: $946,910,515
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Genre: biography drama History
Release Date: July 19, 2023
