The Rock (movie)
- This article is about the 1996 movie. For other meanings, see The Rock (disambiguation).
The Rock is an action movie relased in 1996 that takes place on Alcatraz Island. The movie stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris.
Plot Summary
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In the film, John Patrick Mason (Connery) is a British spy imprisioned for stealing microfilm that contained U.S. government secrets, such as the identity of John F. Kennedy's assassin. He also was the only person to ever escape from Alcatraz, but he was later caught. Afterwards he was locked in another maximum security prison where he was marked as dead and everything about him was erased.
Years later, Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) assembles a team of U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Marines in an attempt to occupy Alcatraz Island, taking a group of tourists as hostages in the process. Hummel threatenes to kill all of San Francisco's population with VX gas missiles unless the government agrees to pay money to the families of American commandos lost in classified operations throughout the world, and also to him and his men.
As the only man ever to escape from Alcatraz, Connery is the only one who can guide Cage and a team of fighters into the base to neutralize the threat.
Cast & Crrew
- Produced by: David Weisberg, Jerry Bruckheimer, Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer
Trivia
- The line "I'll take pleasure in guttin' you, boy" is a reference to the 1979 Clint Eastwood film
