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Captain Phillips

Cast

Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Chris Mulkey View All


Crew

Billy Ray (Screenplay), Paul Greengrass (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 10th, 2013
Runtime: 2 hours, 14 minutes
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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JayDee
Plot - The true story of Captain Richard Phillips (Hanks) who in 2009 was the captain of the American container ship Maersk Alabama which was hijacked by a crew of Somali pirates, and who subsequently found himself taken hostage by the pirates on board one of the ship's lifeboats.
Jack1
During an interview on NPR's "Fresh Air", Tom Hanks said the first time he met the actors playing the Somali pirates was when they started filming the pirates taking over the bridge.
Takoma11
In this based-on-a-true-story thriller, Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) is the captain of a ship called the Alabama, a cargo vessel whose route takes them around the African cape where a string of hijackings has taken place.
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