Manchurian Candidate, The
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.
Title: Manchurian Candidate, The
Release Date: 2004
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
- Directors: Demme, Jonathan
- Actors:
- Wright, Jeffrey as Al Melvin
- Schreiber, Pablo as Eddie Ingram
- Mackie, Anthony as Robert Baker
- Missick, Dorian as Owens
- Cantillo, Jose Pablo as Villalobos
- Dunn, Teddy as Wilson
- Perez-Campbell, Joaquin as Atkins
- Artz, Tim as Jameson
- Washington, Denzel as Ben Marco
- Hitchcock, Robyn as Laurent Tokar
- Schreiber, Liev as Raymond Shaw
- Taylor, Antoine as Boy Scout #1
- Alessi, Joseph as Boy Scout #2
- Thomas, Raymond Anthony as Scout Dad
- Irwin, Bill as Scoutmaster