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The Kingdom
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
2007 · Directed by Peter Berg · 110 min · Thriller · Action · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 6 frames
Tagline
How do you stop an enemy who isn't afraid to die?
Plot
Al-Qaeda terrorists in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, detonate an explosive at an American oil company housing compound, killing both American and Saudi citizens. Before this, terrorists disguised as Saudi State Police had shot the inhabitants in the compound before they were stopped by Sergeant Haytham of the Saudi State Police; after this, another terrorist commits a suicide bombing. Francis Manner, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Legal Attaché in Saudi Arabia, alerts his colleague, Special Agent Ronald Fleury, to the attacks before being killed by a second bomb later that night.
At FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., Fleury briefs his rapid deployment team on the attack, believing it to have been orchestrated by local Saudi terrorist Abu Hamza. He recruits forensic examiner Janet Mayes, intelligence analyst Adam Leavitt, and bomb technician Grant Sykes to his team. Although the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. State Department hinder FBI efforts to investigate, Fleury blackmails the Saudi ambassador into allowing his team into Riyadh.
On arrival, the team is met by Colonel Faris al-Ghazi, the commander of the Saudi State Police Force providing security at the compound, and General Al Abdulmalik of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. The general's inexperience in criminal investigation hinders Fleury's team.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Matthew Michael Carnahan
- Cinematography: Mauro Fiore
- Edited by: Colby Parker, Jr., Kevin Stitt
- Music: Danny Elfman
- Production design: Tom Duffield
- Produced by: Michael Mann, Tim Smythe, Scott Stuber
Cast
- Jamie Foxx as Ronald Fleury
- Jennifer Garner as Janet Mayes
- Chris Cooper as Grant Sykes
- Jason Bateman as Adam Leavitt
- Ali Suliman as Sergeant Haytham
- Jeremy Piven as Damon Schmidt
- Ashraf Barhom as Colonel Faris Al Ghazi
- Richard Jenkins as Robert Grace
- Tim McGraw as Aaron Jackson
- Kyle Chandler as Francis Manner
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America, United Kingdom
- Language: Arabic, English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Forward Pass, Relativity Media, FilmWorks
- Budget: $70,000,000
- Box office: $86,658,558
- Themes: assassin, saudi arabia, assassination, police, chase, explosive, fbi, investigation, medical examiner, terrorism
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