Saturday, September 5, 2009

True Blood Goes to the Movies: The Manchurian Candidate starring Zeljko ( the Magister) Ivanek

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

Cast
Jon Voight ... Senator Thomas Jordan
Meryl Streep ... Eleanor Shaw
Denzel Washington ... Ben Marco
Robyn Hitchcock ... Laurent Tokar
Liev Schreiber ... Raymond Shaw
Zeljko Ivanek ... Vaughn Utly Jim Roche ... Senator from Florida

1 comments:

Rita said...

That was and is a really good movie.