 | The Rock (1996) Run time: 136 min Rating: 7.3 Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller Director: Michael Bay Writers: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook Stars: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris Trivia: A renegade general and his group of U.S. Marines take over Alcatraz and threaten San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock attempt to prevent chaos. |
| Storyline Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel who, for years, has been protesting the government's refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he's holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Hummel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick ... Written by Todd Baldridge | |
| Plot Keywords: alcatraz, general, fbi, rocket, hostage | |
| Details: Country: USA Release Date: 7 June 1996 (USA) | |
| Box Office Budget: $70,000,000 (estimated) Opening Weekend: JPY 139,255,900 (Japan) (15 November 1996) Gross: JPY 115,615,300 (Japan) (29 November 1996) | |
