The Manchurian Candidate

• 6.463 Drama
• 2004-07-30
• 129 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Jonathan Demme

Writer:

Daniel Pyne Dean Georgaris