The Manchurian Candidate
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.
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Clinica Estetico
Denzel Washington as Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco, Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA), Liev Schreiber as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY), Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT), Kimberly Elise as FBI Ag. Eugenie Rose, Vera Farmiga as Jocelyne Jordan, Jeffrey Wright as CPL Al Melvin, Simon McBurney as Dr. Atticus Noyle, Bruno Ganz as Delp, Ann Dowd as Congresswoman Beckett, Ted Levine as Colonel Howard, Miguel Ferrer as Colonel Garret, Dean Stockwell as Mark Whiting, Charles Napier as General Sloan, Jude Ciccolella as David Donovan, Tom Stechschulte as Governor Robert "Bob" Arthur, Pablo Schreiber as PFC Eddie Ingram, Anthony Mackie as PFC Robert Baker III, Robyn Hitchcock as Laurent Tokar, Obba Babatundé as Senator Wells, Zeljko Ivanek as Vaughn Utly, Adam LeFevre as Congressman Healy, Jose Pablo Cantillo as Villalobos, David Keeley as Agent Evan Anderson, Beau Sia as Late Night Comedian, David Neumann as Reporter #3, Joshua Elrod as Shaw's Aide, Tymberly Canale as Victory Party Celebrity Soldier, Marin Ireland as Army Transcriber