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The Manchurian Candidate

Year

2004

Genre

Action

Personal Score

Public Score

6.2 / 10 (530 votes)

MPAA Rating

Running Time

129 mins

Media Type

File

Animated?

Country

USA

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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