Captain Phillips | reviewed by: Jeremy Frost | February 25, 2014
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#CaptainPhillips was intense, well written, beautifully filmed and wonderfully acted. Another career-defining performance by @tomhanks.
| genre | Action | Drama | Thriller |
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| synopsis | 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. |
| lead actors | Tom Hanks | Catherine Keener | Max Martini | Chris Mulkey | Yul Vazquez | Corey Johnson | David Warshofsky | John Magaro | Michael Chernus | Angus MacInnes | Barkhad Abdi | Faysal Ahmed | Barkhad Abdirahman | Mahat M. Ali |
| director | Paul Greengrass |