Manchurian Candidate

DVD Title: Manchurian Candidate Genre: Drama Director: Jonathan Demme Actors: Cast List Movie Year: 30 July, 2004 ASIN: B0006210ZG Disc Number/Location: 472

Description: The Manchurian Candidate, a classic of paranoid cinema from the 1960s, gets a cunning update, rife with hot-topic references to corporate war profiteering and electronic voting machines. Major Ben Marco (Denzel Washington, Training Day) has been haunted by nightmares ever since a firefight during the first Gulf War--a battle in which he believes he was saved by the heroism of Sgt. Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber, Kate & Leopold). But Marco's nightmares suggest otherwise and drive him to investigate what happened, which may threaten Shaw's candidacy for vice-president. Meryl Streep plays Shaw's mother, a senior senator who manipulates everyone around her with an iron will and a sharp tongue. The Manchurian Candidate loses steam towards the end, but up until then director Jonathan Demme keeps the movie rolling fluidly, crafting some creepy paranoia of his own while Streep tears into everything in her path. --Bret Fetzer

Cast List:   Jeffrey Wright as Al Melvin Pablo Schreiber as Eddie Ingram Dorian Missick as Owens Jose Pablo Cantillo as Villalobos Teddy Dunn as Wilson See more cast with photos Anthony Mackie as Robert Baker Joaquin Perez-Campbell as Atkins Denzel Washington as Ben Marco Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw Joseph Alessi as Boy Scout #2 Bill Irwin as Scoutmaster Al Franken as TV Commentator Meryl Streep as Eleanor Shaw Danny Darst as Ellie's Mysterious Aide Molly Hickock as Political Aide Adam LeFevre as Congressman Healy Leona E. Sondreal as Green Room Official #2 Jim Roche as Senator from Florida Obba Babatundé as Senator Wells James B. Howard as Himself Gordon Brummer as "Gordy" Brad Holbrook as Newscaster #7 Kristen Shaughnessy as Newscaster #4 Forrest Sawyer as Newscaster #1 Ed Crane as Newscaster #6 Roma Torre as Newscaster #3 Dan Olmstead as Senator John Shaw Simon McBurney as Atticus Noyle Robert W. Castle as General Wilson Tom Stechschulte as Robert Arthur Vera Farmiga as Jocelyne Jordan Dean Stockwell as Mark Whiting David Keeley as Agent Evan Anderson Michael C. Pierce as Secret Service Agent #2 Miguel Ferrer as Colonel Garret Glen Hartell as Army Transcriber Alyson Renaldo as Mirella Freeman Kenneth Utt as Rosie's Cousin's Mentor Enrique Correa as Reporter #2 Neda Armian as Reporter #4 James Michael McCauley as FBI Agent Jonas Darrell Larson as FBI Agent Ramirez Beau Sia as Late Night Comedian Big Jim Wheeler as Library Patron Stephen Richardson as Jordan's Aide Malcolm Simpson as Yelling Kid Josephine Demme as "Statue of Liberty" Denzel Delahoussaye as "George Washington" Geovonne Long as "MLK" Michael Shehata as "American Eagle" Jiggs Walker as Churchgoer Buzz Kilman as The Guy with the Shades Eliza Simpson as Arthur's Child Andre B. Blake as Victory Party Director Lilly McDowell as Shaw's Aide Craig Branham as Klaus Bachman Reno as Political Pundit Roy Blount Jr. as Political Pundit Reggie Austin as Skid Row Resident #1 E. Jean Carroll as Reporter #5 Daryl Edwards as Train Conductor Ann Pearl Gary as Skid Rown Resident #4 Hugh Karraker as TV Moderator Carol Jean Lewis as Abby Pete Macnamara as FBI Agent Josh Mowery as VP Candidate Teddy Dunn as Wilson Tim Artz as Jameson Robyn Hitchcock as Laurent Tokar Antoine Taylor as Boy Scout #1 Raymond Anthony Thomas as Scout Dad Kimberly Elise as Rosie Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan Paul Lazar as Gillespie Stephanie McBride as Political Aide Victoria Haynes as Political Aide Roger Corman as Mr. Secretary Zeljko Ivanek as Vaughn Utly Ann Dowd as Congresswoman Becket Harry Northup as Congressman Flores Walter Mosley as Congressman Rawlins Gayle King as Media Icon Stacey Newsome-Santiago as Roving Reporter Prue Lewarne as Newscaster #8 Ukee Washington as Newscaster #9 Kaity Tong as Newscaster #2 William Meisle as Tyler Prentiss Sakina Jaffrey as Mysterious Arabic Woman Charles Napier as General Sloan John Aprea as Rear Admiral Glick Jane DeNoble as Robert Arthur's Wife Jude Ciccolella as David Donovan John Bedford Lloyd as Jay "J.B." Johnston Christopher M. Russo as Secret Service Agent #1 Ted Levine as Colonel Howard Marin Ireland as Army Transcriber Tracey Walter as Night Clerk Edwidge Danticat as Rosie's Cousin Bruno Ganz as Delp David Neumann as Reporter #3 Paul Johnson as Campaign Security BeBe Winans as FBI Agent Williams Kate Valk as Agent Volk Duana Butler as Library Clerk Lauren Roselli as Jordan's Aide Shing Ka as Rosie's Sidekick Cassius Kumar Wilkinson as "Abe Lincoln" Gabriela Fung as "Betsy Ross" Aaron Scoenfeld as "Uncle Sam" Jonathan Borst as "JFK" Tom Chapin as Governor Edward Nelson Joey Perillo as Jimmy Marie Runyon as Arthur's Mother Julie Adamy as Arthur's Child Tymberly Canale Harris as Victory Party Celebrity Soldier Joshua Elrod as Shaw's Aide Sidney Lumet as Political Pundit Anna Deavere Smith as Political Pundit Fab Five Freddy as Political Pundit Jaclynn Tiffany Brown as Campaign Staffer Wally Dunn as Burly Passenger Reginald Footman as Skid Row Resident #2 James Howard as Political Party Member Jeremy Knaster as Caretaker Al Lopez as Waiter Dorothy Maneiro Brown as Choir Soloist Mitch Roberson as Skid Row Resident #3