Mission: Impossible

About Mission: 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.

Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible is a 1996 thriller film. Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, Jon Voight as Jim Phelps, Emmanuelle Béart as Claire, and Henry Czerny as Kittridge.

It runs 111 minutes and was released in May 1996. Written by David Koepp and Robert Towne. It was produced by Cruise/Wagner Productions. The film began as a television series.

Shelv files it under central intelligence agency (CIA), undercover, secret agent, and espionage. It streams on Cinemax Amazon Channel, Cinemax Apple TV channel, and HBO Max in the United States. It scores 7.0 out of 10 from 10,419 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Mission: Impossible II, Mission: Impossible III, and Mission: Impossible - Fallout make useful companions to Mission: Impossible, all filed under agent and based on TV series.