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| THE ROCK (1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hollywood superstar Sean Connery joins Academy Award winner Nicholas Cage in the action-packed thrilelr of the year--The Rock! All of San Francisco is taken hostage when a vengeful General seizes control of Alcatraz Island, threatening to launch missiles loaded with deadly poision gas! With time running out, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and a notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the island fortress and defuse the lethal situation! Edge-of-your-seat suspense and unstoppable action explode off the screen in this must-see motion picture event. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sean Connery (John Patrick Mason), Nicholas Cage (Dr. Stanley Goodspeed), Ed Harris (General Francis X Hummel), John Spencer (FBI 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), Gregory Sporleder (Captain Frye), Tony Todd (Captain Darrow), Bokeem Woodbine (Sgt. Crisp), Jim Maniaci (Private Scarpetti), Greg Collins (Private Gamble), Brendan Kelly (Cox), Steve Harris (Private McCoy), Danny Nucci (Lt. Shepard), Claire Forlani (Jade Angelou), Celeste Weaver (Stacy Richards), Todd Louiso (Marvin Isherwood), David Bowe (Dr. Ling), Raquel Krelle (Agent Margie Wood), Dennis Chalker (Seal Boyer), James Caviezel (Rear F-18 Pilot), Stanley Anderson (The President, uncredited), Xander Berkeley (Lab Technician, uncredited), Raymond Cruz (Sgt. Rojas, uncredited), Philip Baker Hall (Chief Justice, uncredited), David Marshall Grant (uncredited), Stuart Wilson (General Kramer, uncredited). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ALCATRAZ. ONLY ONE MAN HAS EVER BROKEN OUT. NOW FIVE MILLION LIVES DEPEND ON TWO MEN BREAKING IN. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| DIRECTOR: Michael Bay (Bad Boys). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WRITERS: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner, Jonathan Hensleigh (uncredited), Aaron Sorkin (uncredited) and Quentin Tarantino (uncredited). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PRODUCERS: Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Barry H. Waldman. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CO-PRODUCER: Kenny Bates. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sean Connery, Dennis Hoffman, Louis A. Stroller and William Stuart. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ORIGINAL MUSIC: Nick Glennie-Smith, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Don Harper and Steven M. Stern. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RELEASE DATE: June 7th, 1996 (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DISTRIBUTOR: Hollywood Pictures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BOX OFFICE OPENING: $25.0 million (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| BOX OFFICE RESULT: $134.0 million (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE: $325 million (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BUDGET: $75 million (USA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hotel Barber: I didn't see you throw the guy off the balcony. I just want to know if you like your haircut. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - Sean Connery insisted the producers build a cabin for him on Alcatraz as he didn't want to travel from the mainland to the island every day; he got what he asked for. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| John Mason: I'm fed up saving your ass. I'm amazed you made it past puberty. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goodspeed: Look, I'm just a biochemist. Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventual life. I drive a Volvo, a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here is one of the most deadly substances the earth has ever known, so what say you cut me some friggin' slack?! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - Mason's (Sean Connery) reply when Goodspeed introduces himself is, "But of course you are." This is the reply Connery as James Bond gives to Plenty O'Toole when she introduces herself in Diamonds Are Forever. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goodspeed: Actually, I'm a biochemical superfreak, but I still need a gun. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - Dedicated to producer Don Simpson who died during production. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mason: When all this is over, you'll back back home driving Carla and your baby insane in your beige Volvo. And I'll be dead or in jail which is the same thing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - Most of the scenes involving F/A-18s are stock footage of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| - In the hotel suite, the song "Leaving on a Jetplane" can be heard in the background while Mason gets his haircut. This is the same song that the astronauts in Armageddon (also a Bay/Bruckheimer movie) sing before getting in the shuttles. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goodspeed: Well, I'm one of those fortunate people who like my job, sir. Got my first chemistry set when I was seven, blew my eyebrows off, we never saw the cat again, been into it ever since. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commander Anderson: Have you ever been in a combat situation? Goodspeed: Define combat, sir. Commander Anderson: Shep... Lt. Shepard: An incursion underwater to retake an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possesion of 81 hostages and 15 guided rockets armed with VX poison gas. Goodspeed: Oh. In that case, no, sir. |
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| - Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| CRITICAL COMMENTS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Big, loud, often dumb...plenty of kinetic action and destruction, as well as contrivances and story holes." -- Leonard Maltin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "A slam-bang action thriller!" -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commander Anderson: God knows I agree with you, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud, but like you I swore to defend this nation from all enemies, foreign sir, and domestic. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The thrill ride of the year!" -- WHYY-TV Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Spectacular!" -- NBC-TV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Goodspeed: I love pressure. I eat it for breakfast. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "A Rock solid adrenaline rush!" -- The Movie Minute | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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