The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Denzel Washington Ben Marco Meryl Streep Eleanor Prentiss Shaw Liev Schreiber Raymond Prentiss Shaw Kimberly Elise Rosie Jon Voight Senator Thomas Jordan Miguel Ferrer Colonel Garrett Ted Levine Colonel Howard Jeffrey Wright Al Melvin Vera Farmiga Jocelyn Jordan Paul Lazar Gillespie Sakina Jaffrey Mysterious Arabic Woman Anthony Mackie Robert Baker Bruno Ganz Richard Delp Dean Stockwell Mark Whiting Jude Ciccolella David Donovan Simon McBurney Atticus Noyle Obba Babatunde Senator Wells Zeljko Ivanek Vaughn Utly John Bedford Lloyd Jay "J.B." Johnston Tom Stechschulte Robert Arthur Charles Napier General Sloan David Keeley Agent Evan Anderson Pablo Schreiber Eddie Ingram Robyn Hitchcock Laurent Tokar Directed by: Jonathan Demme Produced by: Scott Aversano, Scott Rudin, Tina Sinatra U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco canā??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--andwhether 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. ========== 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.