(from Sony Pictures) The hunt for Osama bin Laden preoccupied the world and two American presidential administrations for more than a decade. But in the end, it took a small, dedicated team of CIA operatives to track him down. Every aspect of their mission was shrouded in secrecy. Though some of the details have since been made public, many of the most significant parts of the intelligence operation––including the central role played by that team––are brought to the screen for the first time in a nuanced and gripping new film by the Oscar®-winning creative duo of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal.

Their account of bin Laden’s pursuit and capture, vivid yet faithful to the facts, takes the viewer inside the hubs of power and to the front lines of this historic mission, culminating in the special operations assault on a mysterious, suburban Pakistani compound.

But it is the lead-up to the raid that truly distinguishes Zero Dark Thirty from other accounts. The quest to find bin Laden was fraught with danger from the start, and not every U.S. operative survived. Some intelligence experts came to believe that the assignment was impossible to carry out, but on the ground a determined team of analysts and interrogators defied the odds and proved them wrong. For the first time, their struggle to find Osama bin Laden is told on the screen in electrifying detail.

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Dayton Most Metro Ticket Contest

We’re giving away 30 screening passes for ZERO DARK THIRTY at Rave Cinemas @ The Greene on Thursday January 10, 2013 at 7pm the day before the official release date! And you have THREE WAYS to win:

Fill out the form below and then leave a comment below the article saying that YOU want to win screening passes for Zero Dark Thirty from Dayton Most Metro (be sure to tag @Dayton Most Metro and check the Post to Facebook box).
Follow our Dayton Most Metro Facebook Page and share the image we post later today.
Follow our Dayton Most Metro Twitter Page and retweet our tweet on Zero Dark Thirty later today.

We’ll pick five random people from each of the methods listed above on Monday January 7 and each will receive a pair of screening passes via email. Passes must be used on Thursday January 10th 7pm at Rave Cinemas @ The Greene. There are no reserved seats and since they typically overbook these pre-screening events, we recommend you get there by 5:30 to ensure you get a seat.

Good luck!

CONTEST CLOSED

Congratulations to our winners!

Form Contest Winners:

Randy Crawford
Jimmie Brytus
Jessica McCann
Steve Strawser
Diane Carter

Facebook Contest Winners:

Paul Fleitz
David Peeples
Will Thorpe
Randy Shields
Markus Montreuil

Twitter Contest Winners:

@dianecarter1
@AmyInStilettos
@pamiam04468