Captain Phillips

Released Year: 2013

Certificate: UA

Runtime: 134 minutes

Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 82

Director: Paul Greengrass

Stars: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener

No of Votes: 421244

Gross: 107100855

Overview: 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.

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