as Major Bennett Marco Meryl Streep as Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw Liev Schreiber as Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw Jon Voight as Senator Thomas Jordan Kimberly Elise as Eugenie Rosie Vera Farmiga as Jocelyn Jordan Jeffrey Wright as Corporal Al Melvin Simon McBurney as Atticus Noyle Bruno Ganz as Delp Adam LeFevre as Congressman Healy Ann Dowd as Congresswoman Beckett Ted Levine as Lieutenant Colonel Howard Miguel Ferrer as Colonel Garret Dean Stockwell as Mark Whiting Charles Napier as Lieutenant General Sloan Jude Ciccolella as David Donovan Tom Stechschulte as Governor Robert "Bob" Arthur Pablo Schreiber as PFC Eddie Ingram Anthony Mackie as PFC Robert Baker III Robyn Hitchcock as Laurence Tokar Obba Babatundé as Senator Wells Željko Ivanek as Vaughn Utly John Bedford Lloyd as Jay "J.B." Johnston Cameos Al Franken as a reporter Sidney Lumet as a political pundit Anna Deavere Smith as a political pundit Roy Blount Jr. as a political pundit Fred Brathwaite as a political pundit Roger Corman as the Secretary of State Beau Sia (on a TV screen) as a presenter Gayle King (on a TV screen) as a presenter Production Tina Sinatra was a co-producer of the film. Her father Frank Sinatra portrayed Marco in the original 1962 film and owned that film's legal distribution rights into the late 1980s, never re-releasing it during that time (although it did air on network television several times). In the original, nationally released during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the premise was based on communists taking control; in this remake, big corporate influence serves as the evil faction, a twist to maintain the "Manchurian connection". The remake does not follow the original film's plot details on several occasions. Reception Box office The Manchurian Candidate was released July 30, 2004, alongside Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Thunderbirds, & The Village. The film grossed $65,955,630 in North America and $30,150,334 in other territories, totaling $96,105,964 worldwide. Critical response The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a "Certified Fresh" 80% rating, based on 207 reviews, with an average rating of 7.11/10. The site's consensus reads, "While not the classic its predecessor is, this update is well-acted and conjures a chilling resonance". Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 76, based on 41 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".