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Mission: Impossible

Brian De Palma · 1996 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A Prague operation to catch a mole goes wrong, the whole team is killed, and the surviving agent is disavowed and hunted as the leak; clearing himself means stealing the same list from a sealed vault at Langley. He hangs from the ceiling inches above a pressure-sensitive floor. De Palma's set pieces and a star producing his own vehicle turned a television property into a franchise built on practical stunt work.

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