The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

The Manchurian Candidate is a 2004 thriller film based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Richard Condon, and a re-imagining of the previous 1962 film.

Film is about a platoon of soldiers who remember the heroic acts of one of their members. However, once they're back home, they begin to suffer nightmares that are all too real. They soon begin to realize that their memories may have been tampered with, and something horrible may have happened while they thought they were on the battlefield.

The film stars Denzel Washington as Bennett Marco, a tenacious, virtuous soldier; Liev Schreiber as Raymond Shaw, a U.S. Representative from New York, manipulated into becoming a vice-presidential candidate; Jon Voight as Tom Jordan, a U.S. Senator and challenger for vice president and Meryl Streep as Eleanor Prentiss Shaw, also a senator and the manipulative, ruthless mother of Raymond Shaw.