The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Rating: 6.5/10
Duration: 129 min
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Director(s): Jonathan Demme,
Description:
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Cast
- Jeffrey Wright as CPL Al Melvin
- Pablo Schreiber as PFC Eddie Ingram
- Anthony Mackie as PFC Robert Baker III
- Liev Schreiber as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
- Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
- Vera Farmiga as Jocelyne Jordan
- Simon McBurney as Dr. Atticus Noyle
- Denzel Washington as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
- Kimberly Elise as Rosie
- Miguel Ferrer as Colonel Garret
- Bruno Ganz as Delp
- Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
- Ted Levine as Colonel Howard
- Jude Ciccolella as David Donovan
- Dean Stockwell as Mark Whiting