Captain Phillips

Name: Captain Phillips
Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali

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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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Cast & Crew

Director: Paul GreengrassWriter: Billy RayProducers: Dana Brunetti, Eli Bush, Gregory Goodman, Kevin Spacey, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin

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

David Warshofsky

as Mike Perry

Corey Johnson

as Ken Quinn

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