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Mission: Impossible (1996)

Directed by Brian De Palma•1h 51m•Published May 25, 2021•Episode length 2h 34m
Episode 69 - Mission: Impossible
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Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
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Jon Voight
Jon Voight
Jim Phelps
Emmanuelle Béart
Emmanuelle Béart
Claire
Henry Czerny
Henry Czerny
Kittridge
Jean Reno
Jean Reno
Krieger
Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames
Luther
Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas
Sarah Davies
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
Max
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė
Hannah
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Valentina Yakunina
Drunken Female IMF Agent

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Overview

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.

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to download our most covert of episodes. This week we're heading to the English Chunnel via Langley, Virginia and Prague in search of NOC lists, both real and counterfeit. Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasting crew – Ian, Liam, Ellie, and Ethan (Georgia is away on…

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to download our most covert of episodes. This week we're heading to the English Chunnel via Langley, Virginia and Prague in search of NOC lists, both real and counterfeit.  Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasting crew – Ian, Liam, Ellie, and Ethan (Georgia is away on assignment) - as we try to find more creative cover names that the IMF might come up with.  It's a mole hunt of a 69th episode as we discuss:

  • The production cycle for this film and what it means to Tom Cruise's legacy as Hollywood's ultimate stunt man
  • Why was Emilio Estevez so heavily featured in the first Act
  • We introduce ourselves to each other needlessly
  • Whether or not Kittrich is the hardest working man in all of government
  • Which member of the panel would struggle with code names and probably get outed pretty quickly.
  • The necessity for the magic do-hickey and where we can get one of those
  • One simple change that would have made the film so much better
  • Why the second IMF team in Prague is completely useless
  • 2 cheap fixes that would have made the vault at Langley completely impenetrable
  • A 2 pound solution to a concussion sized problem for Tom Cruise
  • Why Ethan Hunt is the last guy you want breaking bad news to you
  • Whether or not Mission: Impossible is the Best Film Ever

Massive thanks to Lex Van Den Berghe for the use of 'Mistake' by Luckydog.  Catch more from Lex's new band, The Maids of Honor at https://soundcloud.com/themaidsofhonor

Also massive thanks to Moonlight Social for our age game theme song.  You can catch more from them at https://www.moonlightsocialmusic.com/