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Title: The Rock (1996)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sean Connery | ... | John Patrick Mason | |
| Nicolas Cage | ... | Stanley Goodspeed | |
| Ed Harris | ... | General Francis X. Hummel | |
| John Spencer | ... | F.B.I. Director Womack | |
| David Morse | ... | Major Tom Baxter | |
| William Forsythe | ... | Ernest Paxton | |
| Michael Biehn | ... | Commander Anderson | |
| Vanessa Marcil | ... | Carla Pestalozzi | |
| John C. McGinley | ... | Marine Captain Hendrix (as John C. Mc Ginley) | |
| Gregory Sporleder | ... | Captain Frye | |
| Tony Todd | ... | Captain Darrow | |
| Bokeem Woodbine | ... | Sergeant Crisp | |
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Jim Maniaci | ... | Private Scarpetti |
| Greg Collins | ... | Private Gamble | |
| Brendan Kelly | ... | Private Cox | |
Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 tourists, by marine General Francis Xavier Hummel 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. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick ... Written by Todd Baldridge
Fantastically made. Undoubtedly one of the best action films in the last 20 years, Bruckheimer had a fantastic effect on this as his oh so loud impact fashioned this movie into what it is, quite possibly one of the finest in its' genre. Connery puts in a sturdy performance as does Cage but the show is stolen by the one and only Edd harris. His commanding performance carried the movie through small snippets where boredom may have set in, his emotion in the delivery of his lines left nothing to be desired and the role seemed so fitting for such a man, although his height was comic in comparison with the other marines.
All round great film with good acting with just the right amount of comic relief when it was most required. thumbs up fellas