RUNNING TIME: 2:14
RELEASE DATE: October 17, 2013
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini
DIRECTOR: Paul Greengrass
PRODUCER(S): Dana Brunetti
WRITER(S): Billy Ray
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Columbia Pictures' action-thriller 'Captain Phillips' stars two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks in 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. The film is directed by Oscar nominee Paul Greengrass, from a screenplay by Billy Ray and based upon the book, A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, by Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael De Luca.