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Captain Phillips (2013)

★ 7.5 · 7,452 ratings on TMDB

Out here survival is everything.

Captain Phillips poster★ 7.5

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.

DirectorPaul Greengrass
CastBarkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Chris Mulkey, Corey Johnson, David Warshofsky, Faysal Ahmed
GenresAction, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Captain Phillips keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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