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07/06/1996 Action, Adventure, Thriller 2h 17m
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Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.

Overview

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

  1. Michael Bay

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sean Connery

    John Patrick Mason

  2. Nicolas Cage

    Dr. Stanley Goodspeed

  3. Ed Harris

    Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC

  4. John Spencer

    FBI Director James Womack

  5. David Morse

    Major Tom Baxter

  6. William Forsythe

    Special Agent Ernest Paxton

  7. Michael Biehn

    Commander Charles Anderson

  8. Vanessa Marcil

    Carla Pestalozzi

  9. John C. McGinley

    Marine Captain Hendrix

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2019-08-25
Welcome to The Rock.

The Rock is directed by Michael Bay and written by David Weisberg, Douglas Cook & Mark Rosner. It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, David Morse, William Forsythe & Michael Biehn.

When a highly decorated army general (Harris) decides that he's had enough of his men dying and not getting the credit they deserve, he commandeers Alcatraz prison with a crack unit of Mercs. The plan is to hold the government to ransom or he will unleash from the prison biological rockets to bring Armageddon down upon America. Enter chemical weapons expert Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$75,000,000.00

Revenue
$335,062,621.00

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