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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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Michael Bay
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Actors:
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Gregory Sporleder,
Sean Connery,
Nicolas Cage,
Ed Harris,
John Spencer,
David Morse,
William Forsythe,
Michael Biehn,
Vanessa Marcil,
John C. McGinley
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Duration:
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136 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)54
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Plot Summary:
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Swiftly after his fianc?e Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a attend from FBI commander James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been charmed hostage, along with 81 tourists, around aquatic General Francis Xavier Hummel who, on account of years, has been protesting the management's turn-down to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The termination of his helpmate Barbara Hummel on Procession 9, 199... 5 drove General Hummel to the ground the steal, and second 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 begin them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to win over the bombs, but Stanley needs someone who knows Alcatraz expressively ample supply to disappear b escape him inside. That cuffs is one-time British intelligence cause John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past 30 years without a test because he was accused of stealing the private soldier files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate a day to steal from Alcatraz, and he stayed escape of Alcatraz long reasonably to father a daughter named Slut Angelou. Ignoring his extreme hatred of the FBI, John agrees to succour 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.
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