Mission: Impossible (movie)
1996 film directed by Brian De Palma / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mission: Impossible is a 1996 American action spy movie starring Tom Cruise and directed by Brian De Palma. Set after the 1966 television series of the same name and its 1988 sequel series (canonically set six years later after the latter), it is the first installment of the Mission: Impossible movie series. It is set in London, Prague and Virginia.
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Directed by | Brian De Palma |
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Based on | Mission: Impossible by Bruce Geller |
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Cinematography | Stephen H. Burum |
Edited by | Paul Hirsch |
Music by | Danny Elfman |
Production company | Cruise/Wagner Productions |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures[1] |
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Running time | 110 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $80 million[3] |
Box office | $457.7 million[3][4] |
Mission: Impossible was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 22, 1996. The movie was successful and it led to a long-running movie series, starting with Mission: Impossible II (2000), followed by Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and an untitled eighth movie in 2025.