The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Everything is under control.

Movie · Thriller, Mystery · 2h 10m · Rated 6.5/10 on TMDB · Released July 30, 2004

Overview

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.

Directed by Jonathan Demme

Cast

• 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)
• Simon McBurney as Dr. Atticus Noyle
• Kimberly Elise as Rosie
• Bruno Ganz as Delp
• Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan (D-CT)
• Jeffrey Wright as CPL Al Melvin
• Anthony Mackie as PFC Robert Baker III
• Ted Levine as Colonel Howard
• Miguel Ferrer as Colonel Garret
• Dean Stockwell as Mark Whiting

More like this

• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Dreamscape (1984)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Rolling Thunder (1977)
• Halloween (2018)
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• Event Horizon (1997)
• The Guest (2014)
• Unknown (2006)
• You Were Never Really Here (2017)
• Universal Soldier (1992)
• Beast of War (2025)

Movie and show details come from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.