The Manchurian Candidate

A slick reworking of the classic about brainwashed soldiers and a political assassination, from the time frame of the years following the Korean War to the present day., Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller is updated to the Gulf War, with Ben Marco as a member of a patrol saved by Raymond Shaw. Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor and is now standing for vice-president under the stern eye of his controlling mother Eleanor. But, unlike in the original film, she’s a pawn not of the communists but of big business, who want their own man in the White House. Marco, however, keeps having disturbing nightmares and discovers he is being controlled not by brain-washing but by implanted chips. As he attempts to unravel the mystery and stop Eleanor’s plot, so she is equally determined that her son will not be thwarted., Director Jonathan Demme and star Denzel Washington team together for the first time since 1993’s critically acclaimed Philadelphia in this remake of the 1962 political thriller The Manchurian Candidate, which was based on the novel of the same name by Richard Condon and featured Frank Sinatra in the lead role. Washington plays Bennett Marco, a soldier who, along with Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber) and the rest of their platoon, is kidnapped by the enemy during the first Gulf War. Back home years later, as Shaw rises to political prominence, Marco begins to remember that they had been brainwashed by their captors, programmed to carry out the wishes of terrorists when triggered by a specific phrase. The Manchurian Candidate also stars Meryl Streep, Miguel Ferrer, and Jon Voight., Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep star in Jonathan Demme’s absorbing remake of the 1962 political thriller. Washington plays a Gulf War vet troubled by nightmares about his time in Kuwait. Liev Schreiber is excellent as a soldier who served under him before returning to the States, where he has embarked on a promising political career. Directors Roger Corman and Sidney Lumet have cameos. Tina Sinatra, whose father Frank starred in the original, co-produced., After some troubling coincidences, an army officer questions if his Gulf War memories are real or if there is something sinister at stake., Classic wartime thriiler about two soldiers who return from the Korean war and are taughted by nightmares until one of them starts to investigates the reasons behind them., Gulf War hero Raymond is running for vice president, backed by his ruthless mother. But Raymond’s unit leader Ben suspects that the squad was brainwashed in the Gulf and that Raymond is a security threat., (2004) Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller is updated to the Gulf War, with Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) as a member of a patrol saved by Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber). Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor and is now standing for vice-president under the stern eye of his controlling mother Eleanor (Meryl Streep). But, unlike in the original film, she’s a pawn not of the communists but of big business, who want their own man in the White House., (2004) Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 thriller is updated to the Gulf War, with Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) as a member of a patrol saved by Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber). Shaw was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery and is now standing for vice-president, under the stern eye of his controlling mother Eleanor (Meryl Streep). But, unlike in the original film, she’s a pawn not of the communists but of big business, who want their own man in the White House. Marco, however, keeps having disturbing nightmares and discovers he is being controlled not by brain-washing but by implanted chips. As he attempts to unravel the mystery and stop Eleanor’s plot, so she is equally determined that her son will not be thwarted.