The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

R
130 min
Drama
July 30, 2004

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Everything IS under control...in more ways than one in this nearly-perfect film.

Aug 6, 2004

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It took a flawed, frayed, flailing film to ring anew the bell that has always been cracked - to let the light shine in.

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Critics Score

81%

Release Date

July 30, 2004

Director

Jonathan Demme

Writers

Richard Condon
George Axelrod
Daniel Pyne
Dean Georgaris

Cast

Jeffrey Wright
Pablo Schreiber
Anthony Mackie
Dorian Missick
Jose Pablo Cantillo
Teddy Dunn

Official Website

manchuriancandidatemovie.com

The Manchurian Candidate Synopsis

Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, along with Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber, mesmerize a whole new generation of audiences in Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme’s “The Manchurian Candidate.” As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it -- a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself.

U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Washington) can’t sleep at night ... and he doesn’t want to. Marco spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon’s ambush in the Kuwaiti desert and the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Schreiber), who won the Medal of Honor for saving Marco’s crew. But at night, Marco’s dreamlike memories of the desert turn sinister and terrifying. And Marco privately wonders whether the two soldiers who died in the firefight might have met darker fates than officially recorded -- and whether Shaw might not be the glorious hero that everyone thinks he is.

When Shaw takes the national stage as a surefire candidate for vice president -- under the thumb of his controversial mother, Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (Streep) -- Marco is forced to act on his growing suspicions. With military officials questioning his sanity, and the net of security tightening around Shaw, Marco races to probe deeper into the unimaginable, shocking truth before the White House is won.