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| Hollywood has been pumping out some smart thrillers lately, and The Manchurian Candidate is one of them. While the premise of this film is more fun than feasible, the idea that big business wields tremendous clout in Washington is far too real to ignore. Power and money go hand-in-hand—you can’t have one without the other. |
(2004) Film Review by Kevin Miller |
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| CREDITS |
| Directed by Jonathan Demme
Novel by Richard Condon (novel)
1962 screenplay by George Axelrod
Screenplay by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris
Cast (in credits order)
Denzel Washington .... Ben Marco
Meryl Streep .... Eleanor Shaw
Liev Schreiber .... Raymond Shaw
Kimberly Elise .... Rosie
Vera Farmiga .... Jocelyn Jordan
Jon Voight .... Senator Thomas Jordan
David Keeley .... Anderson
Jeffrey Wright .... Al Melvin
Sakina Jaffrey .... Mysterious Arabic Woman
Simon McBurney .... Noyle
Paul Lazar .... Gillespie
Alyson Renaldo .... Mirella Freeman
Adam LeFevre .... Congressman Healy
Robyn Hitchcock .... Laurent Tokar
Pablo Schreiber .... Eddie Ingram
Tom Stechschulte .... Robert Arthur
Anthony Mackie .... Robert Baker
Dorian Missick .... Owens
Jose Pablo Cantillo .... Villalobos
Teddy Dunn .... Wilson
Joaquin Perez-Campbell .... Atkins
Tim Artz .... Jameson
Ted Levine .... Colonel Howard
Bruno Ganz .... Richard Delp
Jude Ciccolella .... David Donovan
Dean Stockwell .... Mark Whiting
John Bedford Lloyd .... Jay "J.B." Johnston
Produced by
Jonathan Demme .... executive producer
Ilona Herzberg .... executive producer
Peter Kohn .... associate producer
Scott Rudin .... producer
Tina Sinatra .... producer
Original Music by
Toni C. (song "Love's Gonna Getcha Material Love")
KRS-One (song "Love's Gonna Getcha Material Love")
Rachel Portman
Cinematography by Tak Fujimoto
Film Editing by Carol Littleton and Craig McKay
MPAA: Rated R for violence and some language.
Runtime: USA:130 min
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The Manchurian Candidate
by Richard Condon, Louis Menand
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| SYNOPSIS |
| Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, along with Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber, mesmerize a whole new generation of audiences in Academy Award® winner Jonathan Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate." As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it – a conspiracy that seeks
to destroy democracy itself.
U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Washington) 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 (Schreiber), 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 (Streep) – 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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KEVIN MILLER
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Kevin Miller is a freelance writer, editor,
and educator who has written, co-written, and edited over 30 books,
both fiction and non-fiction. A film reviewer for the past two years,
Kevin is very excited to join hollywoodjesus.com. He currently resides
in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada with his wife, Heidi, and
their children Huw and Gretchen (and one more on the way). They
attend Fresh Wind Christian Fellowship, a non-denominational church
that focuses on reaching the disabled, children, and people who've
been "burnt by the church." To learn more about Kevin,
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 Could
there be a more appropriate time for a film like this? Released
one month after Fahrenheit 9/11
with conspiracy theories about George W. Bush—“the Arabian
candidate,” as he has been called—running at an all-time
high, The Manchurian Candidate is a masterpiece
of cinematic timing. Thankfully, it is also a great movie. Based
on the 1962 classic starring Frank Sinatra, this remake retains
all of the suspense of the original but updates the context so that
it has that ring of truth that makes you believe something like
this really could happen—almost.
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