The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

Thriller Highly decorated soldier Captain Ben Marco suffers nightmarish flashbacks to one fateful night in the Kuwaiti desert when his platoon came under fire from Iraqis. He begins to suspect that he and his men were subjected to brainwashing in the desert, which has erased all memory of what really happened that night. Searching for answers, Marco approaches former comrade Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), who is now senator in the running for the vice presidential nomination.