Studio: Paramount Pictures

Directed By: Jonathon Demme

Year: 2002

Written By: Daniel Pyne, Dean Georgaris (Based On The Novel By Bill Condon and The Screenplay By George Axelrod)

Draft: 10/26/02

Starring: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schrieber, Jeffrey Wright, Jon Voight

Genre: Thriller/Mystery

Plot/Notes: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major 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 Iraq. As Marco 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.

Price: 15.00