The Rock

Action
Adventure
Thriller
R
2h 16m

A rogue Marine general seizes Alcatraz Island with hostages and threatens San Francisco with chemical weapons unless the government pays reparations to the families of covert operatives. An FBI chemical weapons specialist and the only prisoner known to have escaped Alcatraz are sent in to stop the attack.

Released: 1996-06-07

Director: Michael Bay

Screenplay: David Weisberg Douglas S. Cook Mark Rosner

Producers: Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer

Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce

Cinematography: John Schwartzman

Music: Nick Glennie-Smith Hans Zimmer

Production: Hollywood Pictures Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

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Characters

John Patrick Mason Sean Connery
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed Nicolas Cage
Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel Ed Harris
Commander Charles Anderson Michael Biehn
Special Agent Ernest Paxton William Forsythe
Major Tom Baxter David Morse
FBI Director James Womack John Spencer
Carla Pestalozzi Vanessa Marcil
Marine Captain Hendrix John C. McGinley