Mission: Impossible
Sign in to save1996 film directed by Brian De Palma
AI overview
"Mission: Impossible" is a 1996 action film directed by Brian De Palma that launched a major Hollywood franchise. The movie matters as a landmark example of the big-budget action thriller genre and as the beginning of a series that would span multiple decades and become one of cinema's most successful film franchises.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Film · TMDB
7.0When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
Released: 1996-05-22111 minDir: Brian De PalmaAdventure, Action, Thriller
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Jon Voight as Jim Phelps
- Emmanuelle Béart as Claire
- Henry Czerny as Kittridge
- Jean Reno as Krieger
- Ving Rhames as Luther
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Key dates
- Published
- 5 July 1996
Article
Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American spy thriller directed by Brian De Palma, and produced by and starring Tom Cruise from a screenplay by David Koepp and Robert Towne and story by Koepp and Steven Zaillian. Based on the 1966 television series of the same name and its 1988 sequel series, it is the first installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. It also stars Jon Voight, Henry Czerny, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vanessa Redgrave. In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) seeks to uncover who framed him for the murders of most of his Impossible Missions Force (IMF) team.
Numerous efforts by Paramount Pictures to create a film adaptation of the television series stalled until Cruise founded Cruise/Wagner Productions in 1992 and decided on Mission: Impossible as its inaugural project. Development initially began with filmmaker Sydney Pollack but most of the final screenplay was completed after De Palma, Zaillian, Koepp and Towne were hired; De Palma also designed most of the action sequences, while Cruise did most of his own stunts. Principal photography began in March 1995 and lasted until that August, with filming locations including London, Pinewood Studios in England, and Prague (a rarity in Hollywood at the time).