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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.
The vast, unforgiving expanse of the Indian Ocean becomes a claustrophobic pressure cooker when Somali pirates seize control of a massive cargo ship. This tense standoff strips away cinematic heroics to reveal the raw, terrifying reality of a maritime hostage crisis.
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Paul Greengrass
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Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chris Mulkey, Yul Vazquez
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Director
Paul Greengrass
Cast
Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chris Mulkey, Yul Vazquez
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