The Manchurian Candidate
Rating: 6.6/96979 Plot Summary:
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.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Running time: 2h 9min
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release date: 5 November 2004 (Sweden)
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Dorian Missick, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Teddy Dunn, Joaquin Perez-Campbell, Tim Artz, Denzel Washington, Robyn Hitchcock, Liev Schreiber, Antoine Taylor, Joe Alessi, Raymond Anthony Thomas
