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Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips

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Captain Phillips

"Out here survival is everything."

2013

2h 14m

7.5(7678 votes)

Action

Drama

Thriller

Overview

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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Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Scott Rudin Productions

Trigger Street Productions

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

Captain Richard Phillips

Barkhad Abdi

Barkhad Abdi

Muse

Barkhad Abdirahman

Barkhad Abdirahman

Bilal

Faysal Ahmed

Faysal Ahmed

Najee

Mahat M. Ali

Mahat M. Ali

Elmi

Michael Chernus

Michael Chernus

Shane Murphy

David Warshofsky

David Warshofsky

Mike Perry

Corey Johnson

Corey Johnson

Ken Quinn

Chris Mulkey

Chris Mulkey

John Cronan

Yul Vazquez

Yul Vazquez

Captain Frank Castellano

Creative team

Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Written by: Billy Ray
Produced by: Dana Brunetti
Michael De Luca

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