U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco can’t sleep at night and hedoesn’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, 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 andwhether 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 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.

Directed by
Jonathan Demme

Cast
Denzel Washington - Ben Marco
Meryl Streep - Eleanor Prentiss Shaw
Liev Schreiber - Raymond Prentiss Shaw
Kimberly Elise - Rosie
Jon Voight - Senator Thomas Jordan
Miguel Ferrer - Colonel Garrett
Ted Levine - Colonel Howard
Jeffrey Wright - Al Melvin
Vera Farmiga - Jocelyn Jordan
Paul Lazar - Gillespie

Production Co.
Scott Rudin Productions
Clinica Estetico Staff

Produced by
Scott Aversano
Scott Rudin
Tina Sinatra

Studio
Paramount Pictures

Writer
Richard Condon
George Axelrod

Music
Rachel Portman