THE ROCK: THE CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Action/Adventure, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: A highly decorated, retired U.S. Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages on the San Fransisco Bay isle. His demand: Restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. The response: An elite Navy SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out. The result: A fast paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller with a first-rate cast, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Don Dimpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.
• Cast: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe, Michael Biehn, Vanessa Marcil, John C. McGinley, Gregory Sporleder, Tony Todd, Bokeem Woodbine, Jim Maniaci, Greg Collins, Brendan Kelly, Steve Harris, Danny Nucci, Claire Forlani, Celeste Weaver, Todd Louiso, David Bowe, Raquel Krelle, Dennis Chalker, Marshall R. Teague, Duffy Gaver, Steve Decker, Joseph Hawes, Mike Mahrer, Carlos Sandoval, Rick Toms, Billy Devlin, Jack Yates, Juan A. Riojas, Joseph Patrick Kelly, Ingo Neuhaus, John Laughlin, Harry Humphries, Howard Platt, Willie Garson, John Nathan, Robert M. Anselmo, Jack Ford, Thomas J. Hageboeck, Dwight Hicks, Ralph Peduto, Anthony Clark, Andy Ryan, Hans Georg Struhar, Robert C. Besgrove, Sean Skelton, Raymond O'Connor, Jane Sanguinetti, Luenell, John W. Love Jr., Sam Whipple, Tom Towles, Ronald Simmons, Robert Ben Rajab, Leonard McMahan, Anthony Guidera, Jim Caviezel, John Enos III, Ken Kells, Fred Salvallon, Buck Kartalian, Stanley Anderson, Xander Berkeley, Richard Conti, Raymond Cruz, Ric Drasin, David Marshall Grant, Matthew James Gulbranson, Philip Baker Hall, Jeronimo Spinx, Ezra Stanley, Kevin Weisman, Stuart Wilson, Michael Bay, David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner
• Director: Michael Bay
• Runtime: 2:16
• Company: Walt Disney Video
• Media Format: Movie