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Mission: Impossible

film by De Palma [1996]

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    • Brian De Palma
      In Brian De Palma: The 1980s and ’90s

      In 1996 De Palma directed Mission: Impossible, one of the most-entertaining action movies of the 1990s and his only unqualified hit of the decade. Loosely based on the television series (1966–73), it helped launch a blockbuster franchise starring Tom Cruise as a secret agent. De Palma, however, directed only the…

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    • Cruise
      • Tom Cruise
        In Tom Cruise

        …and a secret agent in Mission: Impossible (1996); the immense popularity of the latter film led to sequels in 2000, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2018, and 2023. His performance as a sports agent in Jerry Maguire (1996) earned Cruise a second Oscar nomination. In 1999 he

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    • Voight
      • Midnight Cowboy
        In Jon Voight

        …Jim Phelps in the movie Mission: Impossible (1996), a murderous government bureaucrat in Enemy of the State (1998), and the father of the title character (played by his real-life daughter, Angelina Jolie) in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Voight received a supporting actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the sports…

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