| Mission Impossible - Impossible (1996)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Tom Cruise |
Ethan Hunt
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| Jon Voight |
Jim Phelps
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| Emmanuelle Béart |
Claire (as Emmanuelle Beart)
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| Emmanuelle Beart |
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| Vanessa Redgrave |
Max
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| Jean Reno |
Krieger
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| Ving Rhames |
Luther
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| Kristin Scott-Thomas |
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| Henry Czerny |
Kittridge
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| Kristin Scott Thomas |
Sarah Davies (as Kristin Scott-Thomas)
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| Dale Dye |
Frank Barnes
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| Marcel Iures |
Golitsyn
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| Ion Caramitru |
Zozimov
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| Ingeborga Dapkunaite |
Hannah Williams
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| Valentina Yakunina |
Drunken female IMF agent
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| Marek Vasut |
Drunken male IMF agent
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| Nathan Osgood |
Kittridge technician
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Action; Adventure; Thriller |
| Director |
Brian De Palma |
| Producer |
Tom Cruise; Paula Wagner |
| Writer |
David Koepp; Robert Towne; Bruce Geller; Steven Zaillian |
| Studio |
Paramount Pictures |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
110 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.5 |
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| Plot |
| A flashy, splashy summer-movie blockbuster that's fun and exciting without being mindless? That's the impossible mission accomplished by director Brian De Palma, star-coproducer Tom Cruise, and the crack team of Mission: Impossible. Based on the '60s TV show and an almost impenetrably complex (but nonetheless thrilling) original story by David Koepp (Jurassic Park) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), with a screenplay by Koepp and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo), Mission: Impossible begins with veteran agent Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) and his expert crew embarking on a mission that goes horribly, horribly wrong. But nothing is what it seems. The nail-biting set piece--always a signature of director De Palma (Carrie, The Untouchables)--in which Cruise is lowered from the ceiling to retrieve information from a computer in a high-security vault--is an instant classic. But perhaps even more impressive, at least in retrospect, is a flashback sequence in which two characters attempt to reconstruct a series of events from multiple points of view. It's pretty daring and sophisticated stuff for a big-budget spy movie, but brains were always what put the Mission: Impossible team ahead of the competition, anyway, no? --Jim Emerson |
| Personal Details |
| My Rating |
7 |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
255 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Price |
$11.38 |
| Links |
Amazon US
DVD Empire
IMDB
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| Edition Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Standard 1.33:1 Color
Widescreen 2.35:1 Color |
| Layers |
Dual Side, Dual Layer |
| Barcode |
097361549774 |
| Chapters |
13 |
| Release Date |
8/19/2003 |
| Subtitles |
Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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