The Manchurian Candidate

(2004)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 1,800 votes

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Year: 2004

Runtime: 129 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Джонатан Демми

Cast: Дензел Вашингтон, Мэрил Стрип, Лев Шрайбер, Саймон Макберни, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz, Джон Войт, Джеффри Райт, Энтони Маки, Тед Левайн

Plot

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.

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.