When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.
Release Date: 30 July 2004Runtime: 129 min
Stars:
- Anthony Mackie
- Antoine Taylor
- Bill Irwin
- Denzel Washington
- Dorian Missick
- Jeffrey Wright
- Joaquin Perez-Campbell
- Jose Pablo Cantillo
- Joseph Alessi
- Liev Schreiber
- Pablo Schreiber
- Raymond Anthony Thomas
- Robyn Hitchcock
- Teddy Dunn
- Tim Artz
Director: Jonathan Demme
