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Amazon.com: Captain Phillips : Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed, Mahat M. Ali, Michael Chernus, Corey Johnson, Max Martini, Chris Mulkey, Yul Vazquez, David Warshofsky, Catherine Keener, Paul Greengrass, Scott
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Captain Phillips: True story? Fact and fiction in Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass' new movie about Maersk Alabama hijacking.
![Cast member Tom Hanks attends the premiere of the biographical motion picture thriller "Captain Phillips" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills, California on September 30, 2013. Cast member Tom Hanks attends the premiere of the biographical motion picture thriller "Captain Phillips" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills, California on September 30, 2013.](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/TY43G6/cast-member-tom-hanks-attends-the-premiere-of-the-biographical-motion-picture-thriller-captain-phillips-at-the-academy-of-motion-picture-arts-sciences-in-beverly-hills-california-on-september-30-2013-the-film-is-the-true-story-of-captain-richard-phillips-and-the-us-flagged-mv-maersk-alabamas-2009-hijacking-by-somali-pirates-the-alabama-was-the-first-american-cargo-ship-to-be-hijacked-in-two-hundred-years-upijim-ruymen-TY43G6.jpg)
Cast member Tom Hanks attends the premiere of the biographical motion picture thriller "Captain Phillips" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills, California on September 30, 2013.
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