The Manchurian Candidate
- IMDb link: 0368008
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (122,757 votes) Search
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
- Director: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Jonathan Demme
- Cast: Anthony Mackie, Meryl Streep, Pablo Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright, Dorian Missick and others
- Release date: 30 Jul 2004
- Release year: 2004
- Runtime: 129 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: obsession, domineering mother, conspiracy, remake, political assassination, brainwashing, villainess, corporation, gulf war veteran, african american
Plot:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
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