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Captain Phillips
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2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass
OverviewAI-generated
Captain Phillips is a 2013 American action, thriller, biographical, and survival film directed by Paul Greengrass. The screenplay was written by Billy Ray, with Scott Rudin serving as producer and Kevin Spacey as executive producer. The cast includes Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Chris Mulkey, and Max Martini. The film, which deals with sea piracy and the Maersk Alabama hijacking, was produced by Columbia Pictures, Michael De Luca Productions, Scott Rudin Productions, and Trigger Street Productions.
The movie was filmed in Malta and Morocco, with Barry Ackroyd as director of photography, Christopher Rouse as film editor, Henry Jackman as composer, and Mark Bridges as costume designer. It has a runtime of 134 minutes and is rated PG-13. The original languages are English and Somali.
Captain Phillips received a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, an 8.3/10 score, and an 82/100 Metacritic score. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound Editing, and Best Film Editing. The film earned $218,791,811 in revenue against a budget of $55,000,000.
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Film · TMDB
7.5The 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.
Cast
- Tom Hanks as Captain Richard Phillips
- Barkhad Abdi as Muse
- Barkhad Abdirahman as Bilal
- Faysal Ahmed as Najee
- Mahat M. Ali as Elmi
- Michael Chernus as Shane Murphy
Themes
- ship
- africa
- fisherman
- hijacking
- somalia
- based on true story
- poverty
- pirate
- terrorism
- commando
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Ratings
IMDb
7.8/10
516,908 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
82/100
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Genres
- Action, Biography, Crime
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- Nominated for 6 Oscars. 17 wins & 155 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
~14 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical action-thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates. It stars Tom Hanks as Phillips, alongside Barkhad Abdi as pirate leader Abduwali Muse.
The screenplay by Billy Ray is based on Phillips's 2010 book A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, which Phillips co-wrote with Stephan Talty. Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca served as producers on the project. It premiered at the 2013 New York Film Festival, and was theatrically released on October 11, 2013. The film emerged as a critical and commercial success, receiving acclaim from critics and grossing $220.6 million against a budget of $55 million. Captain Phillips received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Abdi.
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