Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
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.
- ship
- africa
- fisherman
- hijacking
- somalia
- based on true story
- poverty
- pirate
- terrorism
- commando
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Mahat M. Ali — Elmi
- Michael Chernus — Shane Murphy
- David Warshofsky — Mike Perry
- Corey Johnson — Ken Quinn
- Chris Mulkey — John Cronan
- Yul Vazquez — Captain Frank Castellano
- Max Martini — SEAL Commander
- Catherine Keener — Andrea Phillips
- Omar Berdouni — Nemo
- Mohamed Ali — Asad
- Issak Farah Samatar — Hufan
- Directed
- Paul Greengrass
- Written
- Billy Ray
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 7,620 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Michael De Luca Productions, Scott Rudin Productions, Trigger Street Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
