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Release Date:
30 July 2004 (USA)
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Tagline:
This summer everything is under control.
Plot:
In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 6 nominations
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(32 articles)
Their Best Role: Meryl Streep
(From Cinematical. 18 November 2009, 9:02 AM, PST)
'Heroes' recap: The good, the bad, and the really bad
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 10 November 2009, 6:10 AM, PST)
(From Cinematical. 18 November 2009, 9:02 AM, PST)
'Heroes' recap: The good, the bad, and the really bad
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 10 November 2009, 6:10 AM, PST)
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Limp and lackluster
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeffrey Wright | ... | Al Melvin |
 | Pablo Schreiber | ... | Eddie Ingram |
 | Anthony Mackie | ... | Robert Baker |
 | Dorian Missick | ... | Owens |
 | Jose Pablo Cantillo | ... | Villalobos |
 | Teddy Dunn | ... | Wilson |
| Joaquin Perez-Campbell | ... | Atkins |
| Tim Artz | ... | Jameson |
 | Denzel Washington | ... | Ben Marco |
| Robyn Hitchcock | ... | Laurent Tokar |
 | Liev Schreiber | ... | Raymond Shaw |
| Antoine Taylor | ... | Boy Scout #1 |
| Joseph Alessi | ... | Boy Scout #2 |
| Raymond Anthony Thomas | ... | Scout Dad (as Ray Anthony Thomas) |
| Bill Irwin | ... | Scoutmaster |
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Rated R for violence and some language.
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USA:129 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Switzerland:14 (canton of Zurich) |
Iceland:16 |
Malaysia:18PL (uncut version) |
Malaysia:U (cut) |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:MA |
Finland:K-15 |
Germany:12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Ireland:15 |
Netherlands:16 |
Norway:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Singapore:M18 |
South Korea:15 |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:15 |
USA:R (certificate #40839) |
Canada:14A
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When Ben and Rosie are in her "cousin's" apartment, there are pictures of 'Kenneth Utt' beneath the poster of a play.
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Continuity: In the scene where Maj. Marco is in the library investigating the Manchurian Global corporation's doings, as the camera finds him, it shows that he's wearing headphones in the camera's recordings but after that we see that he's actually not wearing them and he's shown putting them on a couple seconds after to listen to the doctor on the computer.
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Quotes:
Senator Thomas Jordan:
And you bring me rumors and conjecture.
Ben Marco: I started with nightmares. Rumors, conjectures, that's a giant leap forward.
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Ben Marco: I started with nightmares. Rumors, conjectures, that's a giant leap forward.
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References "Larry King Live" (1985)
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The 1962 version of "The Manchurian Candidate" - starring Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey - caught the conspiratorial mood of the time when so many Americans saw a commie round every corner. The current 'war of terror' might have seemed like an apposite time to attempt a remake. I've been a fan of Denzel Washington since he played Steve Biko in "Cry, Freedom" and I regard Meryl Street as the finest actress of her generation, so the chance to see the two starring together for the first time was an attractive one. Since I'm a political animal, the vehicle of a political thriller appeared to add to the attraction. But Jonathan Demme's remake of John Frankenheimer's classic, although it has a certain style, is overall a real disappointment. Frankly it is lackluster when it is not simply silly.
Streep gives a bravado performance as the manipulative mother of the Vice-Presidential candidate who is under external control and Washington is always watchable, but Liev Schreiber as the brain-drilled war hero and politician is robotic even when he is not 'activated'. The 'up-dating' of the story to make corporations rather than Communists the enemy is a well-worn theme, ranging from the Peter Sellers' movie "Being There" to the more recent television series "24". What this new version of Richard Condon's 1959 novel tells us is that Americans are no less fearful and paranoid than they were in the Cold War and Hollywood is no better at remakes than it ever was.