The Manchurian Candidate Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

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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  Liev Schreiber

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  Jon Voight

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  Jeffrey Wright

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  Ted Levine

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Who is making The Manchurian Candidate – Crew List

A look at The Manchurian Candidate behind-the-scenes crew and production team. The film's director Jonathan Demme last helmed Ricki and the Flash and Enzo Avitabile Music Life. The film's writer Daniel Pyne last penned Backstabbing for Beginners and The Camorra Never Sleeps.

Director

Jonathan Demme

Screenwriter

Daniel Pyne

Producers

Scott Rudin
Tina Sinatra

Production – What we know about the The Manchurian Candidate

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Dec 2004

Completed

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