The read
Scores higher than 98% of the 2,629 2010s action movies in this catalog.
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Metacritic82/100
7,669 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul GreengrassDirector
- Billy RayScreenplay
- Henry JackmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tom HanksCaptain Richard Phillips
- Barkhad AbdiMuse
- Barkhad AbdirahmanBilal
- Faysal AhmedNajee
- Mahat M. AliElmi
- Michael ChernusShane Murphy
- David WarshofskyMike Perry
- Corey JohnsonKen Quinn
- Chris MulkeyJohn Cronan
- Yul VazquezCaptain Frank Castellano
- Max MartiniSEAL Commander
- Catherine KeenerAndrea Phillips
Stills
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Themes
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