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Mission: Impossible
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2397
- IMDb #1629
- Rotten Tomatoes #2589
- Metacritic #2166
- Letterboxd #1678
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3040
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2458
- Metacritic Critics #2553
- Metacritic Audience #1501
- Criticker #1891
- Douban #395
- Kinopoisk #1301
- AlloCiné #1713
- Trakt #1194
Every rating
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.
Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Writers
- David Koepp, Robert Towne, Steven Zaillian
- Released
- 22 May 1996
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $80.0M
- Box office
- $457.7M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →0 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Japan Academy Prize 1997 | Outstanding Foreign Language Film | Nominee | |
| MTV Movie Award 1997 | Best Action Sequence | Nominee | |
| Satellite Award 1997 | Best Editing | Nominee |
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