The Manchurian Candidate

Genre: Thriller

Worldwide gross$96.1M

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 eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

🏆 Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 12 nominations total

Genres

Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director

Jonathan Demme

Cast

Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep

Released

30 July 2004

Runtime

2h 9m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

6.6 / 10

Votes

121,188

Metascore

76

Rotten Tomatoes

79%

Box office

$65,955,630

Budget

$80,000,000

Edition

Base