THE ROCK (1996)
Posted by singer - Sunday, February 06th, 2011
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The Rock (1996)
136 min action, thriller USA
Director: Michael Bay
Writers:David Weisberg (story), Douglas Cook (story),
Stars:
Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris
David Morse, John Spencer, William Forsythe, etc...
story:
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage), who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi (Vanessa Marcil) announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack (John Spencer). Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel (Ed Harris) who, for years, has been protesting the government's refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara Hummel on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he's holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Hummel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside...
