The rock / Hollywood Pictures ; produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer ; screenplay by David Weisberg, Douglass S. Cook and Mark Rosner ; directed by Michael Bay.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 13077 | Hollywood Pictures Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment, [1996]Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 1 videodisc (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 1558907270
- 9781558907270
- Director of photography, John Schwartzman; production designer, Michael White; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce; music, Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer.
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | ACTION Rock | Available | 33111009089174 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The sophomore film from former music video and commercial director Michael Bay, this fast-paced action yarn featured rapid-fire editing, a cutting-edge rock soundtrack and liberal use of shots awash in a haze of burnished hues, all trademarks of producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Nicolas Cage stars as Stanley Goodspeed, an FBI chemical weapons expert handed a unique assignment. Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris), an insane Marine Corps general, has taken 81 tourists hostage on the abandoned island prison of Alcatraz. He and his men are threatening to bomb San Francisco with deadly gas unless $100 million is paid in war reparations to the families of servicemen killed in covert operations. Goodspeed is teamed with former British spy John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), the only man ever to escape "The Rock," as well as a Navy SEAL team. When their military escorts are ambushed, it's up to odd couple Goodspeed and Mason to break into Alcatraz and stop Hummel. The Rock was the last film produced by Simpson, who died of a drug overdose before the film's release. Solo, his partner Bruckheimer continued making the sort of glossy, frenetic films for which the duo was famed. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
DVD; region 1, widescreen (2.35:1) presentation, Dolby Digital surround, NTSC.
English or French tracks, with optional Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe.
Director of photography, John Schwartzman; production designer, Michael White; editor, Richard Francis-Bruce; music, Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1996.
MPAA rating: R.
For private home use only.
An FBI chemical weapons expert joins forces with a former British spy to rescue the hostages held on Alcatraz island by a group of Marines who have missiles loaded with poison gas.
Special feature: Original theatrical teaser trailer.