Is The Manchurian Candidate right for your family?
Movie 2004 130 min
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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Recurring nightmares and suspicion about a squad mate turned vice-presidential candidate suggest heavy political and emotional themes.
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