The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Directed by

Jonathan Demme

Genre

drama film, thriller film, political film, political thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 1,759 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Bennett Marco suspects that his fellow soldier Raymond Shaw is being controlled by a powerful corporation with help from Shaw's ruthless mother. Marco tries to uncover the truth and stop Shaw from becoming vice president.

tenseparanoidsuspensefuldarkpoliticalmanipulativepsychologicalslow-burn

What happens

The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American psychological political thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film, based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name and a reworking of the previous 1962 film, stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier; Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate; Jon Voight as U.S. Senator Tom Jordan, a challenger for vice president; and Meryl Streep as Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, also a U.S. Senator and Raymond's manipulative ruthless mother. While the name of the novel and the earlier film was retained, the significance of "Manchurian" was changed. In the original, the protagonist was captured in the Korean War and brainwashed by the Chinese army in Manchuria. In the 2004 film, with the Korean War replaced by the Gulf War, Manchurian is instead used as the name of a sinister multinational company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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