Captain Phillips: Book vs. Movie
Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips (2013) adapts A Captain's Duty, Richard Phillips's 2010 memoir written with Stephan Talty. Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi star in the account of the Maersk Alabama hijacking and hostage crisis.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Richard Phillips
- Year
- 2010
- Pages
- 304Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 42 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- George K. Wilson
Captain Richard Phillips recounts the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates and the days he spends as their hostage in a lifeboat. His account follows the decisions he makes under threat, the efforts to protect his crew, and the uncertainty of waiting for rescue. Memories of his family and years at sea accompany the unfolding standoff.
- Director
- Paul Greengrass
- Writer
- Billy Ray
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 2 hr 14 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed
- Genre
- action, biographical, Drama, pirate, survival, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Somali pirates board the container ship Maersk Alabama, forcing Captain Richard Phillips to protect his crew while negotiating with their leader, Muse. A confrontation aboard the ship develops into a hostage crisis at sea. As naval forces close in, Phillips and his captors are confined together with dwindling options and increasingly little control over what happens next.
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