The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Genres: Thriller, Noir, Political
Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Ted Levine, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, Simon McBurney, Bruno Ganz, Ann Dowd, Miguel Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Charles Napier, Jude Ciccolella, Tom Stechschulte, Pablo Schreiber, Anthony Mackie, Robyn Hitchcock, Obba Babatundé, Željko Ivanek, John Bedford Lloyd, Al Franken, Sidney Lumet, Anna Deavere Smith, Roy Blount, Jr., Fab Five Freddy, Roger Corman, Beau Sia, Gayle King
The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 American neo-noir psychological political 
thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme. The film, based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name and a reworking of the previous 1962 film, stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier, Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate, Jon Voight as U.S. Senator Tom Jordan, a challenger for Vice President, and Meryl Streep as Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, also a U.S. Senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of Raymond Shaw.