Captain Phillips
Out here survival is everything.
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10/10/2013Runtime
134 minsOverview
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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A viscerally tense cat-and-mouse game where desperation meets resolve on the open ocean. The film refuses to paint its conflict in simple moral terms, instead trapping you in the claustrophobic stakes as two sides clash over survival itself.
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