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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 the spy adventure Mission: Impossible. 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. Judd Blaise

Product Details

• UPC: 097360420449
• Source: PARAMOUNT
• Presentation: Wide Screen
• Language: English
• Editions: Special Edition
• Time: 1:50:00
• Sales Rank: 12,981

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:

• Mission: Impossible - Ultimate Missions Collection
• Mission: Impossible / Mission: Impossible II