Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) (Trailer)

Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme remade the seminal 1962 original with Liev Shreiber playing an heroic Gulf War veteran (in John Frankenheimer's version it was Korea) who is standing for high office.

Denzel Washington is the company commander whose suppressed memories of exactly what Shreiber did single him out as a target of dark political forces. Ambiguous and unsettling, this makes the Manchuria of the original (a region of China) became Manchurian Global, a huge Halliburton-style military service company and home to Shreiber's hawkish mother (Meryl Streep).