THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (J. DEMME)
Jonathan Demme directs this updated version from John Frankenheimers 1962 Cold War political/paranoid/psychological thriller. Demme adapts his film from the same 1959 Richard Condon book as did the brilliant original. The slick screenplay keeps things tense in a conventional way, adding on recent political developments. Instead of keeping it solely as a work of political conspiracy involving the Communist menace during the 1950s, the enemy now becomes a present day giant corporation, Manchurian Global, peddling «bad science» and using newly developed mind-control techniques to put a sleeper in charge of the White House. Demme captures the publics fears in this modern age of uncertainty while the dark events depicted in the background are seen as timeless occurences that deeply penetrate our psychological and social well being. (Dennis Schwartz)
- Denzel Washington - Ben Marco
- Meryl Streep - Eleanor Shaw
- Liev Schreiber - Raymond Shaw
- Jeffrey Wright - Al Melvin
- Kimberly Elise - Rosie
- Jon Voight - Senator Thomas Jordan
- Daniel Pyne
- Dean Georgaris nach einem Roman von Richard Condon und basierend auf den Drehbuch von George Axelrod (1962)
- Tak Fujimoto
- Christopher Newman
- Craig McKay
- Carol Littleton
- Rachel Portman
- Kristi Zea
- Albert Wolsky
United International Pictures 100 Universal City Plaza Universal City, CA 91608, USA T 818 777 10 00, F 818 866 14 76
