Captain Phillips
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
- 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.
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