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Cast member Tom Hanks attends the premiere of the biographical motion picture thriller "Captain Phillips" at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in Beverly Hills, California on September 30, 2013.
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Captain Phillips: True story? Fact and fiction in Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass' new movie about Maersk Alabama hijacking.
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