be the lead scientist of the Manhattan Project, he was under surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) due to suspected Communist sympathies. Once selected, the surveillance was constant: every single phone call was recorded and every contact with another person noted. After he was picked to head the laboratory, he only met with Tatlock one time, in mid-June 1943, where she told him that she still loved him and wanted to be with him. After spending that night together, he never saw her again. She committed suicide six months after their meeting. Production Filming took place in the fall of 1988 mainly outside Durango, Mexico, where the Los Alamos research facility was re-created. The re-creation of the Los Alamos laboratory entailed 35 buildings and cost over $2 million to construct in 1988. Soundtrack The film includes a musical score by long-time composer Ennio Morricone. The entire score and extra music were released in 2011 by La-La Land Records. The 2-CD release has source cues, portions of others, and alternate takes that were dropped from the final cut of the film. Produced by Dan Goldwasser and mastered by Mike Matessino. The CD includes liner notes by film music writer Daniel Schweiger. Only 3,000 copies were released. Reception The film has been criticized for distortion of history for dramatic effect, and miscasting in its choices of Paul Newman for the role of General Groves, and Dwight Schultz for the role of Oppenheimer. Noted critic Roger Ebert felt the film lackluster, giving it 1 and a 1/2 stars, and felt that "The story of the birth of the bomb is one of high drama, but it was largely intellectual drama, as the scientists asked themselves, in conversations and nightmares, what terror they were unleashing on the Earth. Fat Man and Little Boy reduces their debates to the childish level of Hollywood stereotyping." The film holds a 48% rating on review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews. The film made under $4 million on its original release. The film was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival. See also Day One, 1989 movie about The Manhattan Project The Beginning or the End, 1947 docudrama film References External links 1989 films Films about the Manhattan Project Films about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki American films based on actual events Films directed by Roland Joffé Films scored by Ennio Morricone