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The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American neo-noir 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 ...
- $80 million
- Rachel Portman
- July 30, 2004
Jul 30, 2004 · The Manchurian Candidate: Directed by Jonathan Demme. With Jeffrey Wright, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Dorian Missick. In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.
- (115K)
- Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Jonathan Demme
- 2004-07-30
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond ...
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- Jonathan Demme
- R
- Denzel Washington
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is considered a classic of the political thriller genre. [5] It was directed by John Frankenheimer and starred Laurence Harvey as Shaw, Frank Sinatra as Marco, and Angela Lansbury as Eleanor in an Academy Award -nominated performance. The Manchurian Candidate (2004) was directed by Jonathan Demme, and starred ...
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- Richard Condon
- April 27, 1959
- McGraw-Hill
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Summaries. In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes. 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 ...
Jul 19, 2004 · Based on the novel by. Corporations, not commies, are the sinister force behind Jonathan Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate," in which poor Raymond Shaw is told by a liberal senator: "You are about to become the first privately owned and operated vice president of the United States." There's a level of cynicism here that is scarier than the Red ...
