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Mission: Impossible (1996)
Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1995
Running Times: 110 mins
Length: 3070 metres
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: DTS Dolby Digital
SDDS
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Cruise-Wagner Productions / Paramount Pictures
Executive Producer: Paul Hitchcock
Producers: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
Production Manager: Guy Tannahill
Unit Production Manager: Steven Harding
Unit Manager (Prague): Michal Prikryl
Production Associate: Michael Doven
Assistant Production Coordinator: Marianne Jenkins
SCRIPT
Script: David Koepp, Robert Towne
Story: David Koepp, Steve Zaillian
Television Series: Bruce Geller
DIRECTION
Director: Brian De Palma
2nd Unit Director: Eric Schwab
1st Assistant Director: Chris Soldo
2nd Assistant Director: Michael Stevenson
Assistant Director: Olda Mach
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Stephen H. Burum
Aerial Camera (Washington DC): Michael Kelem
Steadicam Operator: Larry McConkey
1st Assistant Camera: Rawdon Hayne
Gaffer: Laurie
Shane
Electrician: Igor Jelen
Best Boy: Ron Shane
Camera Grip: Bill Geddes
Crane Grip: Nick Pearson
Camera Crane Operator: Andy Hopkins
Stills: Murray Close
Grip and Lighting Equipment: Lee Lighting Ltd
Camera: Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Film Stock: Eastman Kodak
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Assistant Editor: Simon Cozens
Negative Cutter: Theresa Repola Mohammed
MUSIC
Music: Danny Elfman; Lalo Schifrin (Mission Impossible Theme; The
Plot); Mozart (Divertimento in E-Flat Major for String Trio (K.563)
Third Movement - Menuetto)
Music Performed By: Yo-Yo Ma, Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian (Divertimento
in E-Flat Major for String Trio (K.563) Third Movement - Menuetto)
Orchestrators: Mark Mckenzie, Steven Scott Smalley
Songs: Dolores O'Riordan, Noel Hogan (Dreams)
Songs Performed By: Björk; The Cranberries (Dreams)
Score Recordist: Shawn Murphy
Additional Music Editor: Kenneth Karman
Assistant Music Editor: Jacqueline Tager
SOUND
Sound: John Casali
Sound Mixer: David Crozier
Re-Recording Mixer: Shawn Murphy, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Sean
England
Assistant Sound Editor: Kevin Sellers
Assistant Dialogue Editor: Steve Slanec (uncredited)
Foley Artists: Dennie Thorpe, Tom Barwick
Foley Editor: Matthew Wood
Cable Person: Tomas Cervenka
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Lois Burwell, Jirí Farkas
Costume Designer: Penny Rose
SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects: Rob Bottin
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Supervisor: Ian Wingrove
Special Effects: Eve Ramboz
Special Effects Senior Technician: Terence J. Cox
Special Effects Technician: Terry Glass
Special Effects Senior Workshop Technician: Trevor Wood
Matchmove Artist: Raul Essig
Special Effects Trainee: Gareth Wingrove
Creative Advisor: Dennis Muren
Effects Props: Edward J. Franklin
Technician: Justin Owen
VISUAL EFFECTS
Special Visual Effects: ILM
Visual Effects Supervisor: John Knoll
Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: Joe Letteri
Visual Effects Producer: Alison O'Brien
Visual Effects Cameraman: Stefan Lange
Visual Effects Camera Assistant: Robert Hill
Visual Effects Plate Unit Director of Photography: Kim Marks
Senior Compositor: Mark Nettleton
Visual Effects Designer: Dan Glass
DIGITAL EFFECTS
Computer Graphics Supervisor: George Murphy
Computer Graphics Designer: Simon Staines
Digital Effects Artist: Jeffrey Benedict
Computer Systems Coordinator: Andrew Eio
Software Engineer: Graham Bartram
Pacific Title Digital
Digital Effects Artist: Jeff Wells
Industrial Light and Magic
Technical Director: Karen Ansel
Digital Effects Artist/Animator: Tom Martinek
Digital Compositor: Marshall Richard Krasser
Digital Rotoscope And Paint Supervisor: Kevin Willmering (uncredited)
Flame Artist / Lead Inferno Artist: Sheena Duggal
Model Makers: Danny Wagner, Aaron Haye
Computer Film Company
Visual Effects: Dennis Michelson (uncredited)
Studio Manager: Pete Hanson
Lead Digital Compositor: Paddy Eason
Visual Effects Assistant: Tim Wellspring
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Norman Reynolds
Prop Man: John Chisholm
Dressing Prop: Colin Thurston (uncredited)
Prop Shop: Edward J. Franklin (uncredited)
Art Department Coordinator: Kate Garbett
Conceptual Artist: Tom Southwell
Title Designer: Kyle Cooper
MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisors: Diana Dill, Kay Fenton
Production Associates: Michael Doven, James Calciano
Production Secretary: Pavlina Prikrylova
Dialect Coach: Tim Monich
Dialogue Coach: Constantine Gregory
Transportation Coordinator: Zdenek Flídr
Helicopter Pilot: Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc
Unit Driver: Mark Davies
Technical Advisor: Sue Doucette
Unit Interpreter: Daniela Pavlova
Unit Publicist: Kathy Orloff
LOCATIONS
Locations: Anchor Pub, Southwark, England, UK; County Hall, London,
England, UK; Fleet, Hampshire, England, UK; Glasgow-Dumfries-Carlisle
railway line, Scotland, UK; Liverpool Street Station, London, England,
UK; Tate Gallery, London, England, UK; Tower Bridge, London, England,
UK; Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic; Europa Hotel, Prague, Czech
Republic; Lichtenstein Palace, Kampa Island, Prague, Czech Republic;
National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic; Prague, Czech Republic; Champaign,
Illinois, USA; McLean, Virginia, USA; Washington, District of Columbia,
USA
Studio: Pinewood Studios,
Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Location Managers: Simon Mcnair Scott, Zdenek Fiala
Location Manager (Prague): Simon Marsden
2nd Unit Location Manager: Robin Higgs
Assistant Location Manager: Richard Sharkey (uncredited)
STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Greg Powell
Stunts: Keith Campbell, Paul Jennings, Lee Sheward, Sarah Franzl, Dean
Foster, Tom Lucy, Gerard Naprous, Vincent Keane, Jamie Edgell, Tracey
Eddon, Gary Powell, Ray De Haan, Chrissy Monk, Dinny Powell, Graeme
Crowther
CASTING
Casting (USA): Mali Finn
Casting (UK): Patsy Pollock
CAST
Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt)
Jon Voight (Jim Phelps)
Emmanuelle Béart (Claire Phelps)
Henry Czerny (Eugene Kittridge)
Jean Reno (Franz Krieger)
Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell)
Kristin Scott-Thomas (Sarah Davies)
Vanessa Redgrave (Max)
Dale Dye (Frank Barnes)
Marcel Iures (Alexander Golitsyn)
Ion Caramitru (Zozimov)
Ingeborga Dapkunaite (Hannah Williams)
Valentina Yakunina (drunken female IMF agent)
Marek Vasut (drunken male IMF agent)
Nathan Osgood (Kittridge technician)
John McLaughlin (TV interviewer)
Rolf Saxon (CIA Analyst William Donloe)
Karel Dobrý (Matthias)
Andreas Wisniewski (Max's companion)
David Shaeffer (Diplomat Rand Housman)
Rudolf Pechan (Mayor Brandl)
Gaston Subert (Jaroslav Reid)
Ricco Ross, Mark Houghton (Denied Area security guards)
Bob Friend (Sky News man)
Annabel Mullion (flight attendant)
Garrick Hagon (CNN reporter)
Jirina Trebicka (cleaning woman)
Andrzei Borkowski, Maya Dokic, Sam Douglas, Oleg Fyodorov, Carmela Marner,
Mimi Potworowska (Kiev room agents)
David Schneider (train engineer)
Helen Lindsay (female executive on train)
Pat Starr (CIA agent)
Richard D. Sharp (CIA lobby guard)
Randall Paul (CIA escort guard)
Sue Doucette (CIA agent)
Graydon Gould (public official)
Tony Vogel (MI 5)
Michael Rogers (large man)
Laura Brook (Margaret Hunt)
Morgan Deare (Donald Hunt)
David Phelan (steward on train)
Melissa Knatchbull (air stewardess)
Keith Campbell (fireman (uncredited))
Emilio Estevez (Jack Harmen (uncredited))
PLOT SUMMARY
When his unit is wiped out in a bungled operation, Impossible Mission
Force agent Ethan Hunt goes on the run hoping to smoke out the traitor
that betrayed him. He teams up with a pair of disavowed IMF agents and
discovers that the treachery is much closer to home than he ever imagined...
CAPSULE REVIEW
A surprisingly effective big budget reworking of the cult 60s TV series.
The plot is needlessly convoluted and when you do untangle its many
twists and turns there's very little of any substance, but the set-pieces
are excellent and the film in general looks stunning. Cruise sleepwalks
through his (deliberately?) bland role and has every scene stolen by
the always wonderful Jean Reno. Purists object to the many changes made
to the show's format, but for everyone else it remains an entertaining
if hardly groundbreaking film that gets by on the strength of its hugely
impressive action sequences.
AVAILABILITY
Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: United International Pictures
Video Distributor: Argentina Video Home
Germany
Laserdisc Distributor: Pioneer
DVD Distributor: Paramount (P 901078)
Spain
Theatrical Distributor: United International Pictures
UK
Laserdisc Distributor: Pioneer (PLFEB 35741)
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Video Distributor: Paramount Home Video
Laserdisc Distributor: Paramount (LV 31899); Paramount (LV 31899-2WS)
DVD Distributor: Paramount (154977); Paramount (PAR155634 - part of
the Tom Cruise Action Pack)
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Argentina
Rating: Atp
Australia
Rating: M
Chile
Rating: TE
Finland
Rating: K-12
France
Rating: U
Germany
Rating: 12
Hong Kong
Rating: IIB
Iceland
Rating: 12
Netherlands
Rating: 12
Norway
Rating: 15
Portugal
Rating: M/12
Spain
Rating: 13
Sweden
Rating: 11
UK
Rating: PG
USA
Rating: PG-13 (for some intense action violence)
AWARDS
1996
Golden Screen, Germany
Golden Screen Award - winner
1997
Golden Satellite Awards
Outstanding Film Editing (Paul Hirsch) - nominated
MTV Movie Awards
Best Action Sequence (the train-helicopter chase) - nominated
PGA Golden Laurel Awards
Nova Award: Most Promising Producer in Theatrical Motion Pictures (Tom
Cruise, Paula Wagner) - nominated
Razzie Awards
Worst Written Film Grossing Over $100 Million (David Koepp, Robert Towne,
Steven Zaillian) - nominated
TIMELINE
1996
May
22: Canada, USA - theatrical release
June
6: Singapore - theatrical release
13: Hong Kong - theatrical release
24: Spain - theatrical release
27: Australia - theatrical release
July
5: UK - theatrical release
9: Argentina - theatrical release
12: Brazil - theatrical release
13: Japan - theatrical release
18: Dominican Republic - theatrical release
26: Iceland - theatrical release
August
8: Austria, Germany - theatrical release
9: Switzerland - theatrical release
23: Denmark, Norway - theatrical release
29: Yugoslavia - theatrical release
30: Finland, Portugal - theatrical release
September
6: Poland, Slovenia - theatrical release
12: Hungary - theatrical release
13: Italy, Sweden - theatrical release
October
23: Belgium, France - theatrical release
25: Estonia, Luxembourg - theatrical release
1996
November
29: USA - laserdisc release (Paramount (LV 31899); Paramount (LV 31899-2WS))
1997
March
Day Unknown: Germany - DVD release (Pioneer)
September
Day Unknown: UK - laserdisc release (Pioneer (PLFEB 35741))
1998
November
17: USA - DVD release (Paramount (154977))
2000
June
29: Germany - DVD release (Paramount (P 901078))
August
22: USA - DVD release (Paramount (PAR155634 - part of the Tom Cruise
Action Pack))
POSTER TAGS
Expect the Impossible
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Mission Impossible
Mission Impossible: misión imposible - Spanish title
Vaarallinen tehtävä - Finnish title
Missão Impossível - Portugese title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Mission: Impossible (1966 - 1973)
Mission: Impossible (1988 - 1990)
SEQUELS
Mission: Impossible (1998)
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Mission: Impossible iii (2006)
SEE ALSO
Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)
Cats and Dogs (2001)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
Lenny Henry in Pieces (2000)
Spice World (1997)
FOOTAGE INCLUDED
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Thrills: America's Most Heart-Pounding Movies (2001)
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Cinefantastique June 1996 pp.4, 14-15
(USA)
illustrated article
Cinema 25 July 1996 (Germany)
review (by Heiko Rosner)
Cinescape June 1996 pp.23-28 (USA)
article
Empire August 1996 pp.22-23, 99-105 (UK)
illustrated article; review (by Mark Salisbury)
Empire no.88 (October 1996) p.17 (UK)
note
FilmMagasinet August / September 1996
p.59 (Norway / Sweden)
review (by Mari Edman)
Film Review August 1996 p.17 (UK)
review (by Anwar Brett)
Imágenes September 1996 p.115 (Spain)
review (by Tomas Fernandez Valenti)
O Independente, Vida 30 August 1996 (Portugal)
Interview with Tom Cruise (by Rui Henriques Coimbra)
Première November 1996 p.26 (France)
interview with Martin Landau (by Jacques-Andre Bondy); review (by Gerard
Delorme)
Premiere July 1996 pp.10-11 (UK)
review
Starburst no.215 p.45 (UK)
review
Studio November 1996 p.10 (France)
review (by Thierry Klifa)
Ultimate DVD no.7 (July 2000) pp.20-22;
31 (UK)
illustrated article; illustrated DVD review (by David Richardson)
Visao 12 September 1996 p.88 (Portugal)
review (by Joao Mario Grilo)
NEWSPAPERS
Diario de Noticias 28 March 1997 (Portugal)
review (by Nuno Henrique Luz)
Svenska Dagbladet 13 September 1996 (Sweden)
review (Action på elitserienivå by Jan Söderqvist)
KEYWORDS
aquariums, betrayal, the bible, channel tunnel, cia, computers, elevator
shafts, e-mail, fugitives, gadgets, hackers, helicopters, internet,
masks, revenge, secret agents, spies, television into film, trains
Last Updated:
15 October, 2008
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