The Kingdom is a 2007 American action thriller directed by Peter Berg and starring Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner,Jason Bateman, and Ashraf Barhom, with Kyle Chandler, Jeremy Piven, Richard Jenkins, and Ali Suliman. The film is fictional, but was inspired by bombings at the Khobar housing complex on June 25, 1996 and the Riyadh compound on May 12, 2003 in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan has summarized the plot as, "What would a murder investigation look like on Mars?” The film was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as its yearly "surprise" film on August 22, 2007.
The film got a moderate response from critics. The box office returns were a modest $86.5 million, in relation to the $70 million budget.