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"Captain Phillips" pits Hanks, Abdi in a tense true-life thriller about piracy on the high seas

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Muse:  It was supposed to be easy. I take ship... ransom... nobody get hurt.   Captain Richard Phillips:  You had thirty thousand dollars. And a way to Somalia. It wasn't enough?   Muse:  I got bosses. They got rules.   Captain Richard Phillips:  We all got bosses.       Captain Phillips,  directed by Paul Greengrass ( United 93 ), is one of those based-on-a-true-story thrillers that keep a viewer’s attention even when the ending is not in doubt. Like Kathryn Bigelow’s how-they-got-Bin Laden film   Zero Dark Thirty  or Greengrass’ docudrama about the hijacked 9/11 plane that  didn’t  hit its intended target because its passengers resisted the terrorists,  Captain Phillips  is not a whodunit but rather a movie that answers the question “How did he survive the ordeal?”  Starring Tom Hanks in the title’s role of Captain Richard Phillips, the 2013 film focuses on the hijacking of the  MV Maersk Alabama,  a U.S.-flagged container ship captured by four Somali pirates in Apri