The Rock

Theatrical - Wide 1996-06-07

Cast Sean Connery Nicolas Cage Ed Harris John Spencer David Morse
Directed by Michael Bay
Written by David Weisberg Mark Rosner Jonathan Hensleigh

Box Office Gross: $335,062,621

Running Time: 137 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures

Genres: Action Adventure Thriller

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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... See more impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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