| Uniform Title |
Rock (Motion picture : 1996) |
| Title |
The rock. |
| Edition |
Special edition. |
| Published |
Australia : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2021]. |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (131 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Buena Vista Home Entertainment : E71470. |
| Originally released as a motion picture in 1996. |
| Bonus features: Theatrical trailer ; Featurette ; Tour of The Rock - on-screen trivia track. |
| Credits |
Directed by Michael Bay ; screenplay by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, Mark Rosner ; produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. |
| Performers |
Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. |
| Summary |
Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from F.B.I. Director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with eighty-one 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 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 he needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification: R18+ |
| System details |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital 5.1 & 2.0 ; PAL ; Region 4 ; 16:9 Transfer, Wide screen 2.35:1. |
| Language note |
In English, French, Italian, Czech, Hungarian. Subtitles in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Greek, Bulgarian, Croatian. [CC] English Captions [descriptive subtitles for the hearing impaired]. |
| Subjects |
Military Prison at Alcatraz Island, California -- Drama |
| United States. -- Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Drama |
| United States. -- Department of Defense -- Drama |
| Chemical warfare -- Drama |
| Prisons -- California -- Drama |
| Warheads -- Drama |
| Veterans -- Drama |
| Hostage negotiations -- Drama |
| Feature films -- United States |
| Motion pictures, American |
| Alcatraz Island (Calif.) -- Drama |
| Genre |
Action and adventure films |
| Thrillers (Motion pictures) |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
| Other Names |
Bay, Michael, 1964- director. |
| Weisberg, David screenwriter. |
| Cook, Douglas S. screenwriter. |
| Rosner, Mark screenwriter. |
| Simpson, Don, 1945-1996 producer. |
| Bruckheimer, Jerry producer. |
| Connery, Sean actor. |
| Cage, Nicolas, 1965- actor. |
| Harris, Ed, 1950- actor. |
| Series |
Platinum collection |
| Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
Authors:
- Bay, Michael, 1964- .
- Bruckheimer, Jerry .
- Cage, Nicolas, 1965- .
- Connery, Sean .
- Cook, Douglas S. .
- Harris, Ed, 1950- .
- Rosner, Mark .
- Simpson, Don, 1945-1996 .
- Weisberg, David .
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