The Manchurian Candidate
Year
Genre
Personal Score
Public Score
6.2 / 10 (530 votes)
MPAA Rating
Running Time
129 mins
Media Type
Animated?
No
Country
Production Companies
Clinica Estetico,
Paramount,
Scott Rudin Productions
Budget
$80,000,000
Revenue
$96,105,964
Release Date
July 30, 2004
Director
Jonathan Demme
Producers
Scott Aversano (executive),
Jonathan Demme,
Ilona Herzberg,
Scott Rudin,
Tina Sinatra
Writers
Daniel Pyne,
Dean Georgaris
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.
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- Cast

Denzel Washington
as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco

Meryl Streep
as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)

Liev Schreiber
as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)

Jon Voight
as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)

Kimberly Elise
as FBI Ag. Eugenie Rose

Vera Farmiga
as Jocelyne Jordan

Jeffrey Wright
as CPL Al Melvin

Simon McBurney
as Dr. Atticus Noyle

Bruno Ganz
as Delp

Ann Dowd
as Congresswoman Beckett

Ted Levine
as Colonel Howard

Miguel Ferrer
as Colonel Garret

Dean Stockwell
as Mark Whiting

Charles Napier
as General Sloan

Jude Ciccolella
as David Donovan
Tom Stechschulte
as Governor Robert "Bob" Arthur

Pablo Schreiber
as PFC Eddie Ingram

Anthony Mackie
as PFC Robert Baker III

Robyn Hitchcock
as Laurent Tokar

Obba Babatundé
as Senator Wells

Zeljko Ivanek
as Vaughn Utly

Adam LeFevre
as Congressman Healy

Jose Pablo Cantillo
as Villalobos

David Keeley
as Agent Evan Anderson

Beau Sia
as Late Night Comedian

David Neumann
as Reporter #3

Joshua Elrod
as Shaw's Aide

Tymberly Canale
as Victory Party Celebrity Soldier

Marin Ireland
as Army Transcriber
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