The Manchurian Candidate (2004 film)

The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American science fictionpoliticalthriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film, based on Richard Condons 1959 novel of the same name and a reimagining 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 vicepresidential candidate Jon Voight as U.S. Senator Tom Jordan, a challenger for vice president and Meryl Streep as Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, also a U.S. Senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of Raymond Shaw.

Years later, one of Marcos former NCOs, Corporal Al Melvin Jeffrey Wright, contacts him and says that he suffers from confusing memories and dreams about their lost Army unit. He is clearly deranged, but he shows Marco some images he has drawn from his dreams.Shaw, now a U.S. Congressman, becomes his partys candidate for Vice President after his mother, Virginia U.S. Senator Eleanor Prentiss Meryl Streep, pressures party leaders into passing over their intended pick, U.S. Senator Tom Jordan Jon Voight. A rivalry exists between Eleanor and Jordan, partly due to a past relationship between Shaw and Jordans daughter Jocelyne Vera Farmiga. That evening, Marco has a nightmare in which he is being held captive and brainwashed along with his fellow soldiers. ........

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