The Manchurian Candidate R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 9 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 8, 2013
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Paramount Catalog
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep & Liev Schreiber | |
Performer: | Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Jeffrey Wright & Ted Levine | |
Directed by | Jonathan Demme | |
Edited by | Carol Littleton & Craig McKay | |
Screenwriting by | George Axelrod, Daniel Pyne & Dean Georgaris | |
Composition by | Rachel Portman & Wyclef Jean | |
Produced by | Scott Rudin, Jonathan Demme, Ilona Herzberg & Tina Sinatra | |
Director of Photography: | Tak Fujimoto | |
Executive Production by | Scott Aversano |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A rather decent imitation in the end with political subtext and very good performances.
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Cinema Crazed
Demme serves the picture completely.
The New Republic
All hell breaks loose as Demme catches the audience in a vise of churning suspense and corrosive wit.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/5 --
Sleek remake is more violent than original.
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Common Sense Media
Happily, this extremely timely entertainment matches, even perhaps surpasses its predecessor.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/5 --
If it isn't the original's equal, The Manchurian Candidate conjures up an air of menace sufficient to make most modern thrillers look like romantic comedies.
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Film4
Rating: 1.5/4 --
This humorless and nonsensical update of The Manchurian Candidate - a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original - never quite engages, devolving the original's camp and satire into self-serious melodrama.
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Cinema Writer
Product Description:
Jonathan Demme updates the original 1962 John Frankenheimer classic with plenty of new paranoid twists: This time a sinister Halliburton-style corporation is behind the brainwashing of a Gulf War hero turned vice presidential nominee, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber). Shaw's old unit commander Ben Marco (Denzel Washington) recommended him for the National Medal of Honor, though he can't remember exactly why, and his recurring nightmares drive him to uncover a massive conspiracy. Sinister forces at work include shifty-eyed bodyguards, a love interest with questionable motives (Kimberly Elise), and Raymond's domineering senator mother (Meryl Streep). Demme infuses the proceedings with enough paranoia and uncomfortable close-ups to rival his 1991 Oscar-winner, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Layered sound, overlapping dialogue, and creepy cinematography by Tak Fujimoto (who also worked on LAMBS) further heighten the uneasiness. Demme regulars Roger Corman, Charles Napier, Paul Lazar, and Tracey Walter show up in bit parts as usual. Comedian Al Franken is a welcome face as a TV correspondent, and quirky indie rocker Robyn Hitchcock plays one of the brainwashing specialists. Needless to say, Denzel is superb. Streep is terrifying and hilarious as the maniacal Mrs. Shaw. As with the original (which focused on communist instead of terrorist fear-mongering), the events depicted here are doubly unsettling considering their uncanny resemblance to real-life politics at the time of this film's theatrical release.
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