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Slideshow: Manchurian Hits Close to the Bone

remake plays perfectly on our paranoia about modern politics -- that it's controlled by venal corporate overlords. Plus, it highlights Jonathan Demme's knack for building suspense. Jason Silverman reviews the film.
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Maj. Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) is told by Army doctors that his nightmares are a result of Gulf War Syndrome. Marco, however, has a nagging suspicion that the dreams are real, and wonders if the story he's been telling the world for 10 years is true.

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Liev Schreiber plays the role of vice presidential candidate Raymond Shaw -- a "true American hero" -- who Maj. Bennett Marco believes is an unknowing agent for multinational corporations bent on placing a puppet in the White House.
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The Manchurian Candidate

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Maj. Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) must discover what has happened to him and his fellow Desert Storm soldiers while convincing vice presidential candidate Raymond Shaw of the plot without sounding like a lunatic
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The Manchurian Candidate

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