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The Manchurian Candidate

Cast

Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Vera Farmiga View All


Crew

Jonathan Demme (Director), Dean Georgaris (Screenplay), Daniel Pyne (Screenplay) View All

Release: Jul. 30th, 2004
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
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.
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The sci-fi is a bit heavy on the -fi, but there is enough build to keep us engaged and Demme/Fujimoto conspire effectively to create a tension-filled world, particularly in the dream sequences, which start out very sketchy and confused, and eventually we see exactly what happened.


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