Mission: Impossible
Expect the impossible.
When 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.
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $458M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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Movie DNA
How Mission: Impossible actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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When 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.
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 3 nominations
Japan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerJapan Academy Prize for Outstanding Foreign Language Film
MTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerMTV Movie Award for Best Action Sequence
Satellite Award for Best Editing
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerSatellite Award for Best Editing
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Mission: Impossible returned 5.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $80M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $458M
- Release date
- May 22, 1996
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- Czech, English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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