Manchurian Candidate, The : Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep Interview



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In this internet exclusive, Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep give their views on brain washing and why they agreed to star in the film. The interview also contains two clips from the film.

“We can’t clean up the world with dirty hands.” -Congressman Raymond Shaw

Academy Award® winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, along with Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber, mesmerize a whole new generation of audiences in Academy Award® winner Jonathan Demme’s “The Manchurian Candidate.” As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it – a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself.

Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Washington) can’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 (Schreiber), 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 – and whether 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 (Streep) 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.

Paramount Pictures presents a Scott Rudin/Tina Sinatra Production, in association with Clinica Estetico, a Jonathan Demme Picture, “The Manchurian Candidate.” Directed by Jonathan Demme, the film stars Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber. The screenplay is by Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris and is based upon a novel by Richard Condon and George Axelrod’s screenplay for the 1962 film The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer.

Distributor:- UIP
Release Date:- 19th November 2004
Certificate:- 15 Contains strong violence and language
Running Time:- TBC



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