The Rock

• 7.1 Action
• 1996-06-07
• 137 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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

Director:

Michael Bay

Writer:

Douglas S. Cook Mark Rosner David Weisberg Jonathan Hensleigh