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Following a terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia--which leads to the death of a visiting FBI agent--a determined team from the bureau set out to apprehend those responsible.

Product Identifiers

ProducerMichael Mann

EAN5050582529401

eBay Product ID (ePID)59992560

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleThe Kingdom

ActorJason Bateman, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Danny Huston, Jeremy Piven, Jennifer Garner

DirectorPeter Berg

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2012

FeaturesCreating the Kingdom\'surveillance' Featurette, Widescreen

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

GenreThriller, General

Run Time106 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Director of PhotographyMauro Fiore

ReviewsEmpire - A heart-pounding drama

Consumer AdviceContains strong language, bloody violence and threat

Additional InformationActor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their Saudi counterparts maintains an interesting uncertainty about who's 'right' and who's 'wrong'. The bad guys, however, are unmistakable: the film opens with a brutal terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia, where a visiting FBI agent is killed. Back home in Washington, fellow agents Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx, RAY) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner, ALIAS) want revenge, and will do whatever it takes to gain access to the investigation. Fleury all but blackmails a Saudi prince to get clearance against the wishes of a timorous attorney general, and flies overnight to the scene of the crime. Accompanying him are the no-nonsense forensics expert Mayes, Southern-fried bomb authority Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper, ADAPTATION), and smart aleck Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT). Once there, they encounter the resistance of a Saudi government more interested in getting the Americans safely out of the country and avoiding conflict, rather than in solving the crime. They are assigned a smarmy handler with a weak stomach (Jeremy Piven, ENTOURAGE) to make sure they stay out of trouble. The team must navigate a maze of bureaucracy to begin collecting evidence, but they have an unlikely ally in their Saudi escort, Colonel Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom, PARADISE NOW), a scrupulous and intelligent officer whom Fleury befriends. Soon enough, procedure and protocol give way to car chases and explosive fire fights, and the bleak political climate of extremism and violence is portrayed in a stark light with no easy answers.

Movie/TV TitleThe Kingdom

ComposerDanny Elfman

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

ScreenwriterMatthew Michael Carnahan