The Manchurian Candidate

“Everything is under control.”

Major Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) came home from the Gulf War a decorated officer, and he wakes most nights soaked and shaking from the same ambush. He starts to doubt the story of the soldier he was told saved his squad, Raymond Shaw (Liev Schreiber), now a rising vice-presidential candidate backed by his mother, Senator Eleanor Shaw (Meryl Streep). Jonathan Demme follows Marco into a small, hard lump beneath the skin of his own back.