“This is your mission, should you choose to accept it…” Bringing Bruce Geller’s classic espionage series to the big screen to ignite what would become one of cinema’s most iconic and long-running action franchises, director Brian De Palma’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996) also turned Tom Cruise’s stardom into a supernova – with pulse-pounding thrills driven a clockwork script co-written by AFI Honoary Degree recipient Robert Towne.
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