The Rock (film)
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| Directed by | Michael Bay |
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| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | Richard Francis-Bruce |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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136 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Box office | $335.1 million |
The Rock is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, written by David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook (with Jonathan Hensleigh,Aaron Sorkin and Quentin Tarantino all doing uncredited work on the script). It stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris in the lead roles, with William Forsythe and Michael Biehn co-starring.
In The Rock, an FBI chemist and an imprisoned former SAS captain are tasked with a mission to go out to the old prison island Alcatraz, in order to stop a group of rogue US Force Recon Marines who have taken over the island and captured innocent people, also threatening to launch M55 rockets filled with deadly VX gas over San Francisco unless they are paid $100 million. The film is dedicated to Simpson, who died five months before its release. The film, set primarily on Alcatraz Island and in the San Francisco Bay Area, received moderately positive reviews from critics and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing at the 69th Academy Awards. It was a box office success grossing over $335 million against a production budget of $75 million.
A group of rogue U.S. Force Recon Marines, led by disenchanted Brigadier General Frank Hummel (Ed Harris) and his adjutant Major Tom Baxter (David Morse), seize a stockpile of deadly VX gas–armed M55 rockets; Hummel loses one of his own men in the process when one of the VX canisters ruptures. The next day, Hummel and his men seize control of Alcatraz Island and take eighty-one tourists hostage. Hummel threatens to launch the rockets against San Francisco unless the U.S government pays $100 million from a military slush fund, which he will distribute to his men and the families of Recon Marines who died on clandestine missions under his command and whose deaths were not compensated.
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