The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) is a political thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep lead the cast, with Jonathan Demme directing.

During the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco's recon patrol is ambushed in the Kuwaiti desert. His comrade, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, saves the unit and comes home wearing the Medal of Honor. Years later Shaw is running for vice president while his senator mother clears every obstacle in his path. The trouble is Marco keeps having the same nightmare, and in it nothing happened the way the citation says it did. When he finds a strange implant under his skin, suspicion hardens into certainty: someone rewrote his memory. Liev Schreiber plays Raymond, Meryl Streep his ruthless mother, with Jon Voight and Jeffrey Wright rounding out the cast.

Demme reworked the classic 1962 thriller, moving the conspiracy from Cold War paranoia into a world of corporations and campaign war rooms. Stream The Manchurian Candidate (2004) online on iFILM.