Captain Richard Phillips (played by Tom Hanks), civilian captain of the unarmed ship Maersk Alabama, was carrying cargo in the pirate-infested Indian Ocean adjacent to Somalia in 2009. Pirates boarded the vessel and for 4 days held the brave captain, who cleverly saved his crew, until rescued by SEALs. Captain Phillips, directed by Paul Greengrass, is the docudrama based on Philipps’s 2010 book (with Stephen Talty) A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea. But the fast-moving film pretends that the rescue took a single day, and unexplained to this day is whatever happened to the $30,000 ransom paid to the pirates from the ship’s safe. MH