Meet the man behind Captain Phillips

A screening of one of the year’s most hotly-anticipated titles, Captain Phillips, on November 14 at Brunswick Moviebowl, will be followed by a Q&A session with the director, Paul Greengrass, who is widely acknowledged for reinvigorating the action thriller genre.
By The Newsroom
Published 5th Nov 2013, 12:10 BST
Tom Hanks as Capt PhillipsTom Hanks as Capt Phillips
Tom Hanks as Capt Phillips

The event will take place at 10am and the cost is £4.50 per person or £2.50 per pupil through school bookings. For more information log on at www.brunswickmoviebowl.com or contact the Box Office on 028 7137 1999.

Captain Phillips is director Paul Greengrass’s multi-layered examination of the 2009 hijacking of the US container ship Maersk Alabama by a crew of Somali pirates. It is, through Greengrass’s distinctive lens, simultaneously a pulse-pounding thriller and a complex portrait of the myriad effects of globalisation.

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The film focuses on the relationship between the Alabama’s commanding officer, Captain Richard Phillips, two time Academy Award winner, Tom Hanks, and his Somali counterpart, Muse, Barkhad Abdi.

Set on an incontrovertible collision course off the coast of Somalia, both men will find themselves paying the human toll for economic forces outside of their control.