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The Rock is an action movie released on Friday, June 7, 1996 that mostly takes place on Alcatraz Island, and in the San Francisco Bay area. The movie stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, and Ed Harris.

Plot outline

In the film, John Patrick Mason (Connery) is a British spy imprisoned 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, although he was later recaptured. Afterwards he was locked in another maximum security prison, and any evidence of his existence was erased. All of this was partly orchestrated by James Womack (John Spencer), the devious FBI agent who is now the bureau director.

Years later, Marine Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), disgruntled by the way the government abandoned many of his men, assembles a team of elite U.S. Marines (Force Recon) in an attempt to occupy Alcatraz Island, taking a group of tourists hostage in the process. Hummel threatens 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.

Mason, as the only man ever to escape from Alcatraz, is the only one who can guide Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Cage), an FBI chemical weapons specialist educated at Columbia (B.A.) and Johns Hopkins (M.A. and Ph.D.) with limited field experience, and a team of U.S. Navy SEALs through the catacombs underneath the island to neutralize the threat.

Goodspeed and Mason soon find out that they are the only ones left between Hummel's VX gas rockets and San Fransisco after their team is met and killed by Hummel's forces. The men are forced to work together with Goodspeed's knowledge of the rockets and Mason's knowledge of the prison.

Cast and crew

John Patrick Mason - Sean Connery
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed - Nicolas Cage
Brig. Gen. Francis X. Hummel - Ed Harris
FBI Director James Womack - John Spencer
Maj. Tom Baxter - David Morse
Special Agent Ernest Paxton - William Forsythe
Cmdr. Anderson - Michael Biehn
Carla Pestalozzi - Vanessa Marcil
Capt. Hendrix - John C. McGinley
Capt. Frye - Gregory Sporleder
Capt. Darrow - Tony Todd

:Directed by: Michael Bay :Produced by: Jerry Bruckheimer, Don Simpson :Written by: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner :Screenplay by: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook :Original music by: Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams

Trivia

The line "I'll take pleasure in guttin' you, boy" is a reference to the 1979
Clint Eastwood
film Escape from Alcatraz
.

On the commentary track for the Criterion Collection release, director Michael Bay had said that after one particular day of shooting, Disney executives had shown up on set to take a meeting with Bay. Not particularly excited at the prospect of this meeting, Bay was ready to leave the set when he was approached by Sean Connery
who had shown up in his golfing attire. Connery asked Bay where he was going and Bay told him that he was going to a meeting with Disney executives, which prompted Connery to ask Bay if he wanted him to accompany him. Bay complied and when he had arrived in the conference room, the executives' jaws dropped when they saw Connery appear right behind him. According to Bay, Connery had stood up for Bay and insisted that he was doing a good job and should be left to do his job like he was paid.

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