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Producer Jonathan Demme, Ilona Herzberg
Leading Players Denzel Washington,
Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber
Photography Tak Fujimoto
Script Dean Georgaris, Daniel Pyne
Editor Carol Littleton, Craig McKay
Music Rachel Portman
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Captain Bennett Marco and Sgt Raymond
Shaw served together during Desert Storm and were part of a
platoon of U.S. soldiers who were kidnapped by the enemy, and
brainwashed to become pawns once they return home. Now, ten
years later, Raymond Shaw is climbing the political ladder,
as his mother's new husband is a powerful senator helping a
presidential candidate. Marco spends his days giving inspiring
speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert and
the heroics of Shaw, who won the Medal of Honour for saving
them. However, he is not dealing with the adjustment after the
war that well, and eventually remembers being brain-washed.
Knowing that it's just a matter of time before Shaw is called
to service by his handler, Marco contacts Shaw to try to get
through to him before something terrible happens...
Jonathan Demme's remake of John Frankenheimer's 1962 thriller
infuses it with an urgent topicality. Meryl Streep chillingly
plays a senator ruthlessly pursing the political prospects of
her son - Michael Dwyer, The Irish Times
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