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Captain Phillips (2013)

Captain Phillips
PG-13
Biography
Action
Crime
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Release Date
October 11, 2013
Director
Paul Greengrass
Cast
Tom Hanks , Barkhad Abdi , Barkhad Abdirahman , Catherine Keener , Faysal Ahmed , Mahat M. Ali , Michael Chernus , David Warshofsky
Runtime
134 Minutes
Main Genre
Biography
Writers
Billy Ray , Richard Phillips , Stephen Talty
Tagline
Out here survival is everything.

Summary

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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