Movie
The Rock
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-06-07
- Runtime
- 137 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sean Connery as John Patrick Mason
- Nicolas Cage as Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
- Ed Harris as Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
- John Spencer as FBI Director James Womack
- David Morse as Major Tom Baxter
- William Forsythe as Special Agent Ernest Paxton
- Michael Biehn as Commander Charles Anderson
- Vanessa Marcil as Carla Pestalozzi
- John C. McGinley as Marine Captain Hendrix
- Gregory Sporleder as Captain Frye
- Tony Todd as Captain Darrow
- Bokeem Woodbine as Sergeant Crisp
Crew
- Michael Bay - Director
- David Weisberg - Screenplay
- Douglas S. Cook - Screenplay
- Mark Rosner - Screenplay
- Jonathan Hensleigh - Screenplay
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