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giveaways Mon Oct 22 07, 12:05PM

win a prize pack from the new film ‘The Kingdom’ (now closed)

NOW CLOSED: Winner: Angela. Click through for her winning caption.

WIN: a prize pack consisting of a poster, hat, T-shirt, mini notepad, and jacket from the new film The Kingdom

HOW: write a funny caption for an image from the movie

THE RULES: If you have not won a prize from me in 2007, and you have a United States mailing address, you're eligible to win. If one or both of those rules exclude you but you're moved by the muse of comedy, feel free to send me a caption anyway -- you might get an honorable mention... but let me know you're entering only for fun.

Oh, two more simple rules: 1) Be clever, be original, make me giggle. 2) One entry per person.

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The action drama The Kingdom arrives in theaters this week, and to celebrate, I’ve got a prize pack from the film -- consisting of a poster, hat, T-shirt, mini notepad, and jacket -- to give away, courtesy of Universal Pictures. The scoop on the film, from Universal:

Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx leads an all-star ensemble in a timely thriller that tracks a powder-keg criminal investigation shared by two cultures chasing a deadly enemy ready to strike again in The Kingdom.

When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury (Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team (Oscar® winner Chris Cooper and Golden Globe winners Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing.

Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol—and with the clock ticking on their five days—the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms.

Fleury’s crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al-Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist cell bent on further destruction. With these unlikely allies sharing a propulsive commitment to crack the case, the team is led to the killer’s front door in a blistering do-or-die confrontation. Now in a fight for their own lives, strangers united by one mission won’t stop until justice is found in The Kingdom.

Visit the movie’s official site.

Watch a trailer.

My review of the film is here.

To enter to win, send a funny caption for this still from The Kingdom:

Angela's winning caption: "Tell me your opinion of Electra, again."

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I'm MaryAnn Johanson: writer and ponderer in New York City who drinks too much wine and thinks way too much about such inconsequences as movies, TV, books, and the meaning of life.
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