TY - ADVS AU - Schreiber,Liev AU - Streep,Meryl AU - Demme,Jonathan AU - Washington,Denzel AU - Voight,Jon AU - Elise,Kimberly AU - Fujimoto,Tak AU - Portman,Rachel AU - Axelrod,George AU - Condon,Richard ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation. TI - The manchurian candidate SN - 1415702209 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Hollywood, Calif. PB - Paramount KW - Brainwashing KW - Drama KW - Persian Gulf War, 1991 KW - Vice-Presidential candidates KW - Feature films KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - Thriller KW - Feature KW - migfg N1 - Title from container; Based on the film screenplay by George Axelrod and 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 ; editor, Carol Littleton ; 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, Simon McBurney; MPAA rating: R; for violence and some language N2 - When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw savs 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 -