The University Program Council will present the movie “Captain Phillips” at 7 and 9:45 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Admission is $1 for UNL students with valid NCard. The event is not open to the public.
In this Oscar-nominated film, two-time Academy Award winner Tom Hanks teams with Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass and screenwriter Billy Ray to tell the true story of Richard Phillips, a U.S. cargo-ship captain who surrendered himself to Somali pirates so that his crew would be freed.
The film is part of UPC’s Second-Chance Cinema series. UPC is a student organization that provides diverse, educational and entertaining programs to enhance the UNL community. For more information, go to http://involved.unl.edu/upc.
