" CAPTAIN PHILLIPS " 4 Thumbs Up

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2013)

" Tom Hanks gives an Academy Award winning performance of Captain Phillips in the true story of the 2009 hijacking of the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates ". Russell & Cissy
PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned: Run-time 2:03
R & C Warnings - sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images, little language (5).
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Russell & Cissy's Entertainment Values With Spoilers Release Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 / Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Tom Hanks (two time Academy Award®-winner) plays Captain Richard Phillips, dealing with 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.
Tom Hanks puts the icing on another Academy Award® Winning performance in the last 10 minutes of the movie. I could hear several audience members weeping near me. Cissy and I were misty eyed, and no doubt Tom Hanks will be nominated in February 2014 for an Academy Award for this performance.
I had the pleasure to work with Tom Hanks briefly in " From The Earth To The Moon " at Universal Studios Florida in 1998. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1455770/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1