Plot & Details
After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more with the original show than the occasional self-destructing message and the name of team leader Jim Phelps (Jon Voight). The film focuses not on Phelps but his protégé, Ethan Hunt (a reserved Tom Cruise), who becomes a fugitive after taking the blame for a botched operation. He responds by banding together with a group of fellow renegades, and he is soon maneuvering his way through a twisted series of double crosses that mainly serve as excuses for spectacular high-tech action sequences. Much of the activity revolves around a missing computer disk, with the film's most famous scene depicting Hunt's delicate efforts to retrieve the disk from a secure, well-alarmed room in CIA headquarters.
- MPAA Rating: PG-13
- Genre(s): Action
- Run Time: 110min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 05/22/1996
- DVD Release Date: 11/17/1998
- Distributor(s): UIP
- Director(s): Brian De Palma
- Starring: Tom Cruise , Jon Voight , Emmanuelle Béart , Henry Czerny , Jean Reno
- Themes: Traitorous Spies/Double Agents,Flight of the Innocent
- Tone: Paranoid,Rousing,Slick,Tense,Flashy,Explosive
- Keywords: bad-guy,betrayal,espionage,good-guy,killing,office,on-the-run,race-against-time,robbery,treason
- Country of Origin: USA (05-22-1996)
- Language: English
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