Friday Free Movie is The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

This Week’s Friday Free Movie is The Manchurian Candidate

You can stream The Manchurian Candidate on VUDU.

The Manchurian Candidate is based on the book with the same name by author Richard Condon. The book has been made into a movie twice.

• The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon (1959) – Book by Richard Condon
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – Film starring Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004) – Film starring Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, and Meryl Streep

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Friday Free Movie is The Manchurian Candidate

Reviews

Rotten Tomatoes – All Critics: 81%
Rotten Tomatoes – Audience Score: 63%
IMBD – 6.6/10

David Ansen – Newsweek

Jonathan Demme’s new Manchurian Candidate is a gourmet-popcorn movie–a hugely entertaining thriller shot through with dark shards of agony and paranoia. It takes nothing away from the original while delivering pleasures all its own.

Will Self – London Evening Standard

Good as the players are, they can’t make this hokum remotely believable.

Taglines

Everything is under control.

….is anyone seeing the truth?

This summer everything is under control.

By The Numbers…

Release Date: July 30, 2004
Running Time: 2h 9min
Rating: R
US Theater Sales: $65,955,630
Worldwide Theater Sales: $96,105,964
Budget: $80,000,000 (estimated)