CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Type of media Film
Approved Running time 133m 53s
Release date 18/10/2013
BBFCInsight Contains moderate violence and threat
Genre(s) Drama
Director(s) Paul Greengrass
Cast includes Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Addirahman, Catherine Keener, John Magaro, Michael Chernus, Max Martini, Christopher Stadulis
Cut This work was passed uncut.
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12A
- ECI information
BBFCinsight publication date 08/10/2013
Note: The following text may contain spoilers
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS is a drama based on the true story of the hijacking of a US cargo ship by Somali pirates in 2009.
- Violence
Actual physical violence is brief and generally undetailed. There is sight of bloody injuries that have been sustained accidentally, such as when a man steps on broken glass, but these are not focussed upon. In one scene, blood is seen to splash onto a man's face when other men are shot, but there is no strong detail of the actual violence.
- Threat
When the pirates take over the ship, crew members are threatened with guns and with other forms of physical force. There is further threat when the ship's captain is isolated and taken away by the pirates in a lifeboat vessel. Although these scenes are intense and give a powerful impression of the fear felt by the crew, the sense of threat is not unduly sustained and is broken up by other action.
The film also includes mild bad language, including uses of 'hell', 'Jesus', 'shit', 'ass', 'asshole', 'goddamn', 'screwed up', 'piss' and 'bastards'.
There is also sight of people smoking, as well as chewing on the leaves of the khat plant.
Details
- Title
- CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
- Year
- 2013
- Distributor(s)
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Classified date(s)
- 09/08/2013
- Main language
- English
- Submitted run time
- 133m 53s
- Approved footage
- 12049+8
- BBFC reference
- BFF297663
- Registration number
- CFJ29753