The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Released: 30 Jul 2004
Runtime: 129 min
Rated: R
Director: Jonathan Demme
Writer(s): Richard Condon (novel), George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne (screenplay), Dean Georgaris (screenplay)
Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Dorian Missick
Awards: Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 8 nominations.
IMDB Ratings: 6.6
Plot: 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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