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The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - 6 corrections

Directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Denzel Washington, Jon Voight, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep (add more)

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War

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When Raymond accidentally gets triggered at the Chinese restaurant, it's off by one word. The bartender says "why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire" but he would have had to say "Raymond, why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire" [First, this was listed for the wrong movie - this scene is from the 1962 original. Second, it's the queen of diamonds in the solitaire deck that triggers him, not anything the bartender said.]

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When the candidate is shot embracing his mother, it is done with a single shot to his upper back. The subsequent shot that shows the candidate and his mother lying on their backs has the candidate with a wound to his lower abdomen and the mother with a wound to the chest. Since the candidate's wound is an exit wound and the trajectory of the bullet is downward, it would be impossible for it to rise to the mother's chest level. [First, the candidate is shot in the middle of the back, not the top. Second, the candidate's exit wound is at the top of his abdomen / bottom of his rib cage, not his lower abdomen. When you add in the fact that Liev Schrieber is nine inches taller than Meryl Streep, it sounds very reasonable indeed.]

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In New York State in "even numbered" election years (such as a Presidential election), more than the presidential/vice presidential candidates appear on the ballot. Other candidates would include the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate (possibly), State Senate, State Assembly as well as a host of state judicial, county and local candidates. Raymond only pulls down two levers when he votes. Either he didn't care about his running mates right on down the candidate list or he was in a real hurry to get out of the voting booth. [He may have voted "straight ticket" which is where one lever automatically votes for all candidates of the same party.]