The Rock
The Rock
“ Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in. ”
CINEMA1996-06-07
DIGITAL2021-02-23
RegionUS
Runtime136 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Storyline
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
DIRECTOR / Director
Michael BayCast & Crew
KEYWORDS
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Nicolas Cage
From Oscar winner and action star to internet-age cult icon, he turned acting into a four-decade cinematic adventure.
Nicolas Cage is one of the hardest actors in modern American cinema to categorize. He won the Academy Award for Leaving Las Vegas, became a 1990s action star through The Rock, Con Air, and Face/Off, then passed through a prolific and uneven genre period before a renewed wave of attention with Mandy, Pig, Dream Scenario, and Longlegs. His career is less a smooth rise than a continuing performance experiment across auteur cinema, blockbusters, B-movies, and self-created mythology.
