Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by and starring Tom Cruise. Based on the television series of the same name, the plot follows Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his mission to uncover the mole who has framed him for the murders of his entire IMF team. Work on the script had begun early with filmmaker Sydney Pollack on board, before De Palma, Steven Zaillian, David Koepp, and Robert Towne were brought in. Mission: Impossible went into pre-production without a shooting script. De Palma came up with some action sequences, but Koepp and Towne were dissatisfied with the story that led up to those events.
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| Running time | 110 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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| Budget | $80,000,000 USD
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| Box office | $181,000,000 USD
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- Computer systems coordinator Andrew Eio`s name appears as an IMF agent on the "NOC list".
- In-joke: Tom Cruise goes online with his laptop by typing in, not Usenet, but Crusenet.
- As Max looks over the NOC list on the train, it`s possible to see that the names are repeated many times.
- Alan Silvestri was originally hired to score the film, and had written roughly twenty-three minutes of music before he was taken off. He recycled the material he had written and used it for the score to Eraser (1996). Bootleg copies of his "Mission: Impossible" score are in circulation.
- Diehard fans of "Mission: Impossible" (1966) were upset by the treatment of the Jim Phelps character in this film, and by the decision to turn much of the focus onto one character.
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