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| Directed by | Michael Bay |
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| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Edited by | Richard Francis-Bruce Steven Weisberg |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution |
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Running time | 136 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million[2] |
| Box office | $335.6 million[2] |
The Rock is a 1996 American action thriller film directed by Michael Bay, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner. The film stars Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris, with Michael Biehn and William Forsythe co-starring. In the film, the Pentagon assigns a team comprising an FBI chemist and a former SAS captain with a team of SEALs to break into Alcatraz, where a rogue general and a rogue group of Marines have seized all the tourists on the island and have threatened to launch rockets filled with nerve gas upon San Francisco unless the U.S. government pays $100 million to the next-of-kin of 83 men who were killed on missions that the general led and that the Pentagon denied.
The Rock was dedicated to the memory of co-producer Don Simpson,[3] who died five months before its release. The film received positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for Best Sound at the 69th Academy Awards. It was also a financial success, earning box-office receipts of over $335 million against a production budget of $75 million, and became the fourth highest-grossing film of 1996. It was remade in India as Qayamat: City Under Threat.[4][5]
- ^ "The Rock (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 4, 1996. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ India Today. Thomson Living Media India Limited. July 2003.
- ^ "'Qayamat: City Under Threat' copied from 'The Rock'". Bollywood Copy - Not everything is original in Bollywood. August 8, 2017. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2021.