Title The Rock Overview A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid, as restitution to families of Marines who died in covert ops – or he will launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX gas into the San Francisco Bay area. Tagline Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in. Genres Action, Adventure, Thriller Keywords san francisco, fbi, gas attack, alcatraz, hostage situation, fbi agent Production Companies Hollywood Pictures, Don Simpson Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 136 Release Year 1996
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 335 million USD