Out here survival is everything.
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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Contemporary, grave, earnest and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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Cast
- Tom HanksCaptain Richard Phillips
- Barkhad AbdiMuse
- Barkhad AbdirahmanBilal
- Faysal AhmedNajee
- Mahat M. AliElmi
- Michael ChernusShane Murphy
- David WarshofskyMike Perry
- Corey JohnsonKen Quinn
- Chris MulkeyJohn Cronan
- Yul VazquezCaptain Frank Castellano
Crew
- Paul GreengrassDirector
- Billy RayScreenplay
- Barry AckroydDirector of Photography
- Henry JackmanOriginal Music Composer
- Christopher RouseEditor
- Michael De LucaProducer
- Dana BrunettiProducer
- Scott RudinProducer
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