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Somali pirates steal the show in the 2013 film Captain Phillips.

It tells the true life story of the 2009 hijacking of the Maersk Alabama off the coast off Somalia. Tom Hanks stars in the titular role and Barked Abdi as the pirate leader Abduwali Muse.

But does the film ignore what's driving the attempt of the high-stakes heist?

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