The Manchurian Candidate poster
Director Jonathan Demme
Screenplay Dean Georgaris, Daniel Pyne

The Manchurian Candidate

Tagline: Everything is under control.

Release Date: 2004-07-30

Duration: 129 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Denzel Washington
    Major Bennett Ezekiel Marco
  • Anthony Mackie
    PFC Robert Baker III
  • Vera Farmiga
    Jocelyne Jordan
  • Meryl Streep
    Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA)
  • Ted Levine
    Colonel Howard
  • Pablo Schreiber
    PFC Eddie Ingram
  • Zeljko Ivanek
    Vaughn Utly
  • Liev Schreiber
    Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY)
  • Jon Voight
    Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
  • Jeffrey Wright
    CPL Al Melvin