It's been a hard season for political-minded movies at the box office. Here's a look at the walking wounded.
The Kingdom
Director Peter Berg flexed his inner Bruckheimer with this thriller
about an elite FBI unit sent to Saudi Arabia. The most successful of the
bunch.
GROSS: $47.5m
Rendition
Standard op-ed talking points such as deportation and torture are
apparently no sexier when they feature Reese Witherspoon and Jake
Gyllenhaal in leading roles.
GROSS: $9.7m
In the Valley of Elah
Audiences failed to materialize for Paul Haggis' critically lauded drama
about a father (Tommy Lee Jones) investigating the mystery behind his GI
son's death.
GROSS: $6.8m
Lions for Lambs
Even a dream team of Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford
couldn't salvage this talkathon about neoconservatism and the mainstream
media.
GROSS: $14.8m
A Mighty Heart
Though Angelina Jolie won raves as slain reporter Daniel Pearl's
pregnant wife, Mariane, the grim real-life story lost summer filmgoers
to more frivolous fare.
GROSS: $9.2m
