The Rock

1996 | Action, Adventure, Thriller

  Plot

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack.

  Cast & Director

Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

Michael Bay

  Tagline & Quote

Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.

John Mason: Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
Stanley Goodspeed: Carla was the prom queen.

  Setting & Characters

1990s | California

John Patrick Mason, Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, Special Agent Ernest Paxton, Major Tom Baxter