Summary:
Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with 81 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 Hummel 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 Himmel 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 Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British intelligence agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy SEAL team, General Hummel's men kill the entire SEAL team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.
| Runtime: | 136 min |
|---|---|
| Rating: | Rated R for strong violence, language and a sex scene. |
| Production: | Hollywood Pictures |
| Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Home Release Date: | Mar 13, 2001 |
| Director | Credit |
|---|---|
| Michael Bay | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| David Weisberg | Story |
| Douglas Cook | Story |
| Mark Rosner | Screenplay |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Ed Harris | Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel, USMC |
| Nicolas Cage | Dr. Stanley Goodspeed |
| Sean Connery | John Patrick Mason |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Bokeem Woodbine | Sergeant Crisp |
| Brendan Kelly | Private Cox |
| David Morse | Major Tom Baxter |
| Greg Collins | Private Gamble |
| Gregory Sporleder | Captain Frye |
| Jim Maniaci | Private Scarpetti |
| John C. McGinley | Marine Captain Hendrix |
| John Spencer | FBI Director James Womack |
| Michael Biehn | Commander Anderson |
| Tony Todd | Captain Darrow |
| Vanessa Marcil | Carla Pestalozzi |
| William Forsythe | Special Agent Ernest Paxton |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Barry H. Waldman | Associate Producer |
| Don Simpson | Producer |
| Jerry Bruckheimer | Producer |
| Kenny Bates | Associate Producer |
| Louis A. Stroller | Executive Producer |
| Sean Connery | Executive Producer |
| William Stuart | Executive Producer |
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