The Manchurian Candidate

Release Date: Friday, July 30, 2004

Meryl Streep, Scott Rudin, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Ted Levine, Jonathan Demme, Daniel Pyne, Tina Sinatra

R Thriller 2 hrs, 10 m

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U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco can't sleep at night—and he doesn't want to. Marco spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert and the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw, who won the Medal of Honor for saving Marco's crew. But at night, Marco's dreamlike memories of the desert turn sinister and terrifying. And Marco privately wonders whether the two soldiers who died in the firefight might have met darker fates than officially recorded—and whether Shaw might not be the glorious hero that everyone thinks he is. When Shaw takes the national stage as a surefire candidate for vice president—under the thumb of his controversial mother, Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw—Marco is forced to act on his growing suspicions. With military officials questioning his sanity, and the net of security tightening around Shaw, Marco races to probe deeper into the unimaginable, shocking truth before the White House is won.
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The film's director Jonathan Demme last directed Ricki and the Flash and Enzo Avitabile Music Life. The film's writer Daniel Pyne last wrote Backstabbing for Beginners and The Camorra Never Sleeps.

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Scott Rudin
Tina Sinatra
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MPA Rating
R Restricted for violence and some language
Runtime
2 hrs, 10 m
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Language
English

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The Manchurian Candidate was released in on Friday, July 30, 2004 . There were 5 other movies released on the same date, including The Village, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and She Hate Me.



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Mon., Dec. 22, 2008

  • Added the soundtrack release date of September 14, 2004

  • Added the DVD release date of December 21, 2004

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