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THE ROCK

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THE BACK OF THE BOX
WHAT THE STUDIO WANTS YOU TO KNOW

    Hollywood superstar Sean Connery (The Hunt For Red October) joins Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (1995 Best Actor - Leaving Las Vegas) in the action-packed thriller of the year, The Rock! All of San Francisco is taken hostage when a vengeful General (Ed Harris - Apollo 13) seizes control of Alcatraz Island, threatening to launch missiles loaded with deadly poison gas! With time running out, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a notorious Federal prisoner (Connery) 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!

STARRING:

Sean Connery: John Patrick Mason
Nicolas Cage: Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
Ed Harris: Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC
Michael Biehn: Commander Anderson
William Forsythe: Special Agent Ernest Paxton

SCREENWRITER: David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, Mark Rosner

DIRECTOR: Michael Bay

RUNNING TIME: 136 minutes

STUDIO: Hollywood Pictures

Average Hollywood Guys Rating: A

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GIGGLES, GLOBES AND OSCARS
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

ACADEMY AWARDS
(5 nominations and 4 wins)

Best Sound - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester
(nominated)

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GOLDEN GIGGLES

No awards or nominations given to this film.

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THE GEEK BOX
TRIVIA TO IMPRESS YOUR EASILY IMPRESSED FRIENDS

• Sean Connery refused to travel from the mainland to Alcatraz Island everyday for filming and demanded that a cabin be built for him to stay in as a requirement for him doing the film, and the producers agreed.
• This was the last film collaboration between Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson as Simpson died during production of this film. The movie was dedicated to his memory.
• Stanley Anderson plays the silhouetted voice of the President in this movie, he also appears as only a shadow and a voice as the President in Armageddon, another Jerry Bruckheimer movie directed by Michael Bay.
• A number of screenwriters did uncredited rewrites and dialogue work on the script, including Quentin Tarantino and Aaron Sorkin.

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