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Jul 23, 2009The New York Press’s Armond White on Made in U.S.A and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her—by way of Michael Bay (we knew it would happen someday!):“Both these widescreen spectacles can help...
United States
1996
136 minutes
Color
2.35:1
English
108
A highly decorated, retired U.S. Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with eighty-one tourists as hostages on the San Francisco Bay isle. His demand: Restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. The response: An elite Navy SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical-warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists’ defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out. The result: A fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller with a first-rate cast, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer.
| John Patrick Mason | Sean Connery |
| General Francis X. Hummel | Ed Harris |
| Stanley Goodspeed | Nicolas Cage |
| Commander Anderson | Michael Biehn |
| Ernest Paxton | William Forsythe |
| Major Tom Baxter | David Morse |
| FBI Director Womack | John Spencer |
| Marine Captain Hendrix | John C. McGinley |
| Captain Darrow | Tony Todd |
| Sergeant Crisp | Bokeem Woodbine |
| Lieutenant Shepard | Danny Nucci |
| Jade Angelou | Claire Forlani |
| Carla Pestalozzi | Vanessa Marcil |
| Captain Frye | Gregory Sporleder |
| Director | Michael Bay |
| Producer | Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer |
| Screenplay | David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner |
| Story | David Weisberg and Douglas S. Cook |
| Executive producers | William Stuart, Sean Connery and Louis A. Stroller |
| Cinematography | John Schwartzman |
| Production Design | Michael White |
| Editing | Richard Francis-Bruce |
| Costume design | Bobbie Read |
| Music | Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer |
| Casting | Heidi Levitt and Billy Hopkins |
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