Film

The Manchurian Candidate

Name: The Manchurian Candidate
Director: Jonathan Demme
Released: 2004
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Vera Farmiga, Kimberly Elise

2004 · 129 min · ★ 6.5 · Dir. Jonathan Demme

Everything is under control.

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.