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PUBLISHED
©2001
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2 videodiscs (136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #108
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A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the island and neutralize the threat before time runs out
Originally released as motion picture in 1996
Director, Michael Bay ; screenplay by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook, and Mark Rosner ; music by Nick Glennie-Smith and Hans Zimmer
Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, Michael Biehn, William Forsythe
Rated R
DVD
English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired