Captain Phillips

Captain Phillips is a 2013 biographical action-thriller film that dramatizes the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, focusing on the relationship between Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) and pirate leader Muse (Barkhad Abdi) during the tense standoff and eventual Navy intervention. Directed by Paul Greengrass, the film is a pulse-pounding account of survival and a look at the complex issues of globalization that fuel the pirates' actions