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Synopsis: Captain Phillips is a multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is - through director Paul Greengrass's distinctive lens - simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller, and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalization. The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama's commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips (two time Academy Award®-winner Tom Hanks), and the Somali pirate captain, Muse (Barkhad Abdi), who takes him hostage. Phillips and Muse are set on an unstoppable collision course when Muse and his crew target Phillips' unarmed ship; in the ensuing standoff, 145 miles off the Somali coast, both men will find themselves at the mercy of forces beyond their control.
Director(s): Paul Greengrass
Production: Sony Pictures
  Nominated for 6 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 144 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
93%
PG-13
Year:
2013
134 min
$107,100,855
Website
8,733 Views


You said you just wanted money.

You said this was just business.

Is this business?

Is this how you do business?

NAJEE:
Ten seconds.

Die right now.

[]

[SPEAKING IN SOMALI]

[IN SOMALI] Wait.

I want to search the ship.

You wanna search the ship?

I want to search every lock and hold

of the ship now.

You wanna search the ship?

Now.

All right. We'll search the ship.

We'll start on the nav deck

and work our way down.

We better hope

the emergency power stays on.

We won't be able to see if it goes off.

I'll take you. We'll search the ship.

But you stop threatening my men.

No game.

PHILLIPS:
No game.

Let's go.

[SPEAKING IN SOMALI]

PHILLIPS:

All right? All right, good.

[IN SOMALI] Take his radio.

[SPEAKS IN SOMALI]

All right. Okay.

Go.

Gotta get these lights off.

They're gonna see us.

We need to shut down the generator

on the main deck.

You think you can get up there?

Yeah.

SHANE:
I'm gonna go to the mess, get water.

Get everyone on the lower level.

All right. I'm on 2.

Just start at the very top.

This is E deck.

And we'll just work our way down

one by one, huh?

Cargo hold is probably where they are.

There's a lot of places to hide.

And I'm not trying to trick you.

I wanna find these guys

just as much as you do.

[IN SOMALI]

Take his flashlight.

PHILLIPS:
We should just move on,

because we're wasting time here.

Like I say,

the cargo deck's the best place to look.

Somebody messing with ship.

Engine room.

If we're going about this systematically,

we started at the top,

we're working our way down,

so we should try the cargo deck.

Problem from engine room.

We go there now.

All right. Engine room.

It's gonna be really hot down there.

Without the power on,

there's no ventilation, no air.

Maybe we should get some water

from the mess down on A deck?

Then engine room. Go.

Okay.

[]

PHILLIPS:

This is A deck.

PHILLIPS:

So here we are.

This is the galley.

This is where we make the food.

All right. Here, some water.

[IN SOMALI] Check this room.

[BILAL SPEAKS IN SOMALI]

PHILLIPS:
Oh, you wanna see in here?

This is cold storage.

It's a vegetable room.

Careful in here in the bare feet.

You could cut them

on almost anything.

Want some of this melon?

It's left over from breakfast.

It's just gonna go bad.

It's just gonna spoil.

It's usually left out

for the first meal of the day.

Maybe we should...

Go ahead, help yourself. Here you go.

Help yourself.

It's usually for breakfast, but...

Enough. Engine room.

All right.

Cronan. Cronan. Do you read?

Yeah, I got you.

They're on their way to you.

They're on their way to you.

One is barefoot.

Is there glass you can break,

leave on the floor by the door?

I'll do it. Come on, let's go. Come on.

[]

PHILLIPS:

Here's the engine room.

[YELLS]

Oh, my God.

Look out. There's broken glass.

Be careful.

MUSE:

Put your hand up. Up your hands. Up.

Okay, all right.

MUSE:
Up.

[SPEAKS IN SOMALI

THEN GROANING]

There's a first-aid kit...

Put your hands up! Who did this?

PHILLIPS:

Nobody. It was just a dumb accident.

We should get that looked at.

There's a kit in the control room.

Quiet, Irish. You think

I am stupid?

I know what's going on.

We're going to search this whole room.

All of it. Now go.

Go.

[]

[PIPE CLATTERS]

[]

ELMI:

I heard something!

[GROANS]

MUSE [IN SOMALI]:

Check the other side.

There's no one here.

Please, let's go back.

[SPEAKS IN SOMALI]

Go. Right down to the bottom. Now.

They're coming. Get ready.

[]

[ELMI SHOUTS IN SOMALI]

Keep going. Move.

[BILAL GROANING]

[ELMI SHOUTING IN SOMALI]

MUSE:

Wait. Stop here.

What? What'd you do?

PHILLIPS:
We just...

Look at me, Irish. Look at me.

What's wrong with your ship?

I don't know.

Was that you?

I don't know what went wrong.

No.

PHILLIPS:
You'll never find this crew,

not without any power on the ship.

You'll never find them.

We'll never find them.

Irish,

I will find.

Not with him.

Look. He's gonna bleed to death.

BILAL:

Look, man, get us out of here.

BILAL:
Aah!

You got a man injured.

Let's take care of his foot,

take the money out of the safe

and call it a day. All right?

[BILAL GROANING]

[PANTING]

You're bad luck, Irish.

[IN SOMALI]

Hey, take him upstairs.

I can't move.

Take him upstairs

and tell Najee to come.

We're gonna go?

MUSE:

Go!

Hey.

Wait. Aah!

You're not gonna find anybody.

Don't talk. Go.

Make us run around?

[IN SOMALI] If one of them moves,

send them to their graves.

Here.

[THUDDING]

MAN:

Hey.

[MUSE GRUNTS]

[]

[GROANS THEN SHOUTS IN SOMALI]

We got a problem.

Your buddy's hurt real bad.

[GROANING]

We better get this dressed. We got a sick bay

here on board, and this guy knows what to do.

NAJEE:

What happened to you?

[IN SOMALI] They put glass down for me.

They got me.

Where is Muse?

In the engine room.

He wants Najee to come down.

SHANE [OVER RADIO]:

Bridge. Bridge, come in.

Alabama bridge, come in.

Do you read?

This is the crew of the Maersk Alabama.

We have your captain.

Put your hand over his mouth.

SHANE:

We have your leader.

We have your captain and his weapon.

We wanna trade.

Captain for captain. We want a deal.

Take that off of his head.

Cronan, take that off his head now.

I no kill.

Talk. Talk to your friends

so they know it's you.

Talk to your friends.

Come on, a**hole. Say something.

I love America.

[IN SOMALI]

Hey! Get me out of here!

Listen to what these guys have to say.

[IN SOMALI] What happened?

MUSE:

They cut my hand, bad.

We'll straighten everything out later.

Just get me out of here.

Give Irish the radio.

I'll give it to him now.

[MUMBLING IN SOMALI]

Uh... Uh... Captain, you know,

if you wanna get off this ship,

you don't have a skiff anymore,

but you could get into our lifeboat.

You could take off

off our stern,

and you can go with the $30,000,

and you could get off this ship right now.

Do we have a deal?

Say we have a deal.

Say we have a deal.

Okay, Irish. Deal.

Deal, Irish, deal.

Okay, then.

Listen, we could...

NAJEE:
Hey.

[IN SOMALI]

Thirty thousand is nothing.

I want millions!

[]

There. All right, there's the lifeboat.

Hey, Bilal, check it out.

If anyone moves, kill them.

Kill them!

Where is our guy?

[GROANS]

SHANE:

Hey, Cap. Cap, it's Shane.

I'm not armed. I'm not armed.

No weapons. No. Hey, easy.

There's no weapons.

There's no weapons. No weapons.

[PIRATES SHOUTING IN SOMALI]

Hey, Shane. Do you have

the captain? Where is he?

In the engine room.

Bring him up so they can see him.

I wanna see.

You will.

Bring him up so they can see him.

He's on his way.

[SHOUTS IN SOMALI]

Where?

Here he is. Yeah, there he is.

NAJEE:
Where?!

PHILLIPS:
See? There he is. There.

[IN SOMALI]

What's going on, Skinny?

[IN SOMALI] Do what they

say and get me out of here.

Be strong, man.

Now let's do this. We'll bring up your guy.

You get in, you buckle up.

We drop you in, and then

you're on your way. Okay? Okay?

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Billy Ray

William "Billy" Ray is an American screenwriter and director. He began writing for television and movies in 1994 with Color of Night. He has written numerous movies including Volcano and Hart's War. He was one of the creators and writers of the science fiction show Earth 2. On August 10, 2015, it was announced that he will be writing the screenplay that Martin Scorsese will direct of an adaptation of The Devil in the White City, which will star Leonardo DiCaprio. more…

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