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.| Status: | Released (1996-06-07) |
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| Awards: | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 10 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $134,069,511 |
| Screen: | David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner |
| Productions: | Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Hollywood Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 738: Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason
- 2963: Nicolas Cage - Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
- 228: Ed Harris - Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
- 34691: John Spencer - FBI Director James Womack
- 52: David Morse - Major Tom Baxter
- 4520: William Forsythe - Special Agent Ernest Paxton
- 2712: Michael Biehn - Commander Charles Anderson
Crews
- 738: Sean Connery - Executive Producer - Production
- 771: Don Simpson - Producer - Production
- 6581: Richard Francis-Bruce - Editor - Editing
- 59331: Douglas S. Cook - Screenplay - Writing
- 24050: William Stuart - Executive Producer - Production
- 865: Michael Bay - Director - Directing
- 24049: David Weisberg - Screenplay - Writing
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Reviews
Bryan Nguyen
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Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in. Michael Bay's best picture. The sophomore effort from director Michael Bay, this $75 million dollar action film was released nationwide on June 7, 1996 - eventually earning $335 mi ....
Continue reading ->John Chard
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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 ....
Continue reading ->Gimly
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The two lead characters' impact on the events of the move are pretty negligible, everyone and everything in it is laughably stupid, and you can see here begin to blossom the stereotypes that Michael Bay would go on you ruin everything he ever touched with, but I still kind of like _T ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Right, first things first - turn your brain down to simmer for a couple of hours before you watch this and just remember it is meant to be a far-fetched action film. Once in that gear, it's not actually that bad once it eventually gets going. Rogue general "Hummel" (Ed Harris) steals ....
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