John Aprea

The Manchurian Candidate -- In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

The Game -- Nicholas Van Orton is a very wealthy San Francisco banker, but he is an absolute loner, even spending his birthday alone. In the year of his 48th birthday (the age his father committed suicide) his brother Conrad, who has gone long ago and surrendered to addictions of all kinds, suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS). Giving up to curiosity, Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.

Academy Award-winners Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, along with Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Liev Schreiber, mesmerize a whole new generation of audiences in Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme’s "The Manchurian Candidate." As the entire nation watches the presidential campaign hurtle towards Election Day, one soldier races to uncover the conspiracy behind it - a conspiracy that seeks to destroy democracy itself.

This remake of the 1962 film, adapted from the 1959 novel of the same name, tells the story of a veteran who begins to unravel an unfathomable truth - that in the midst of the first Gulf War, soldiers were kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.