TY - ADVS AU - Axelrod,George AU - Condon,Richard AU - Demme,Jonathan AU - Elise,Kimberly AU - Fujimoto,Tak AU - Portman,Rachel AU - Schreiber,Liev AU - Streep,Meryl AU - Voight,Jon AU - Washington,Denzel ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation. TI - The Manchurian candidate SN - 1415702225 PY - 2004/// CY - Hollywood, Calif. PB - Paramount KW - Brainwashing KW - Drama KW - DVD KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991 KW - Vice-Presidential candidates KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Thriller KW - Feature KW - migfg N1 - Based upon the film screenplay by George Axelrod; based upon the novel by Richard Condon; Special features: commentary by director Jonathan Demme and screenplay writer Daniel Pyne; 2 featurettes; 5 deleted/extended scenes; 2 outtakes; Liev Schreiber screen test; political pundits with director commentary; Director of photography, Tak Fujimoto ; editors, Carol Littleton, Craig McKay ; music, Rachel Portman ; costume designer, Albert Wolsky ; production designer, Kristi Zea; Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright, Ted Levine, Bruno Ganz, Miguel Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Jude Ciccolella; MPAA rating: R; for violence and some language N2 - When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed as part of a plot to get Shaw into the White House. Now the Manchurian Global corporation appears desperate to stop him from finding out ER -