The Rock (Blu-ray)

Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from F.B.I. Director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with eighty-one 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 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 Hummel 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 he needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British Intelligence Agent John Patrick…

Product details
Actors: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse
Directors: Michael Bay
Writers: David Weisberg, Douglas Cook, Mark Rosner
Producers: Don Simpson, Jerry Bruckheimer
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English, Hindi
Subtitles: English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: R Restricted
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
DVD Release Date: January 8, 2008
Run Time: 136 minutes