U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Washington) can't sleep at night - and he doesn't want to. Marco spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert and the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Schreiber), who won the Medal of Honor for saving Marco's crew. But at night, Marco's dreamlike .. Read more
| Starring | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise |
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| Director | Jonathan Demme |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco (Washington) can't sleep at night - and he doesn't want to. Marco spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert and the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Schreiber), who won the Medal of Honor for saving Marco's crew. But at night, Marco's dreamlike memories of the desert turn sinister and terrifying. And Marco privately wonders whether the two soldiers who died in the firefight might have met darker fates than officially recorded - and whether Shaw might not be the glorious hero that everyone thinks he is.
When Shaw takes the national stage as a surefire candidate for vice president - under the thumb of his controversial mother, Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (Streep) - Marco is forced to act on his growing suspicions. With military officials questioning his sanity, and the net of security tightening around Shaw, Marco races to probe deeper into the unimaginable, shocking truth before the White House is won.
| Starring | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Kimberly Elise, Jon Voigt, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Bruno Ganz, Simon McBurney, Vera Farmiga |
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| Director | Jonathan Demme |
| Studio | PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 9 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 4 mins HD DVD: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | Top 400 All-Time Rentals |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English HD DVD: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 2004 To Rent: DVD: 04 Apr 2005 Blu-ray: not available HD DVD: not available HD DVD: 17 Sep 2007 |
Slick thriller that de-fangs the original, removing its paranoia about the political process and replacing it with something less topical and more amorphous; on its own terms it's watchable, but it's no more than another disposable high-tech thriller.
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A bland remake of a classic film
The fact that Jonathan Demme's remake doesn't live up to the original comes as little surprise, unfortunately the film fails to impress even when taken ... read more »
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good film
Read the reviews, but thought that I would give it a go anyway
and it was better than I thought it would, it held your interest
I had not ... read more »
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What a stodgy lot of nonsense
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See the original first
Not as good as the original - yes, I know that's corny, but it simply isn't. Some weird jump-cuts in the editing; my guess is that it had some heavy ... read more »
Fifteen Oscar nominations in 30 years! It’s no wonder that Meryl Streep takes award ceremonies in her stride these days. Seeing as how she’s lost on no less than 13 of those occasions she’d have to be a gibbering wreck if she took them too seriously. My first prediction for the Oscars 2010 is that la Streep will add another nomination to her record-breaking tally, this time for playing TV chef Julia Child in Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia. And my second prediction is... Read more
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