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The film The Sicilian (1987), directed by Michael Cimino, is a sweeping historical crime drama. Its screenplay was written by Steve Shagan and later revised by both Cimino and Gore Vidal, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same title from 1984. The story follows Salvatore Giuliano, a notorious bandit who leads a group of rebels in an attempt to liberate Sicily from Italian control during the early 1950s and turn it into ...

The American science fiction thriller film, The Manhattan Project (1986), follows the story of Dr. John Mathewson who makes a groundbreaking discovery in refining plutonium to high levels of purity. As a result, he is given a laboratory in Ithaca, New York by the US government under the guise of a medical company. Upon his move to Ithaca, John meets real estate agent Elizabeth Stephens and attempts to charm her by inviting her son Paul for a lab tour. However, Paul, a gifted student with a love for science, quickly becomes suspicious when he stumbles upon an impossible patch of five-leaf clover on the premises. Despite John’s confidence in the cover story for ...