The Manchurian Candidate

2004·129'

Jonathan Demme

DramaThrillerMystery

English

Letterboxd TMDB #14462

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

Cast

Denzel Washington Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco Meryl Streep Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA) Liev Schreiber Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY) Simon McBurney Dr. Atticus Noyle Kimberly Elise Rosie Bruno Ganz Delp Jon Voight Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT) Jeffrey Wright CPL Al Melvin Anthony Mackie PFC Robert Baker III Ted Levine Colonel Howard Miguel Ferrer Colonel Garret Dean Stockwell Mark Whiting