Why did Kittridge have Ethan's family arrested? [To attempt to provoke Ethan to come out of hiding.]
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Mistakes
When Ethan is being lowered into the room with the NOC List, he has the digital temperature gauge. As Ethan is going down, the gage is right side up so you can read it normally. However, Ethan is upside down, and therefore so are the camera glasses he is wearing. Now when we see the computer screen that Ving Rhames is using, the gauge is right side up there, but it should actually be upside down. See more...
Mission: Impossible (1996) - 5 questions
Directed by Brian De Palma, starring Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Jon Voight, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Cruise, Vanessa Redgrave, Ving Rhames (add more)
The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!
Why did Kittridge have Ethan's family arrested? [To attempt to provoke Ethan to come out of hiding.]
Answered by Tailkinker
During the beginning of the film, why does Jim fake his death? Was it to frame Ethan? [Jim fakes his death so that the IMF won't come after him. Jim's aim is to give the impression of a blown mission, but to ultimately end up with the NOC list himself - something that he succeeds in doing. He's selling this to Max for a LOT of money, enough to set himself up for life, but he needs the IMF to think that he died in the blown mission. He leaves Ethan alive so that Ethan can tell the IMF that he 'saw' Jim die, so that they won't come looking for him. He frames Ethan so that Ethan won't come looking for answers.]
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Did Ethan actually know it was a mole hunt to trap Jim, or was he oblivious until he worked it out at the train station? [He knew that it was a molehunt, because Kittridge told him that it was at the restaurant just before Ethan's 'escape'. As he and Claire were, as far as he knew at the time, the only survivors, he had to assume that either there'd been a terrible mistake, or that she was guilty - the only problem with that being that there was no obvious way for her to have carried out the murders of the rest of the team. When Jim showed up at the station, Ethan had another possible candidate for the mole, and it all fell into place from there.]
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What exactly does NOC mean? It's never established in the movie. ["Non-Official Cover". Operative who work for the CIA but are not formally recognized or connected (in case a mission goes bad - he would be on his own). Same thing from The Recruit.]
How does discovering the Bible stamped with "The Drake Hotel" tip Ethan Hunt off that Jim Phelps is Job? And what alerts Ethan of Krieger's complicity, since he's the one who recruits Krieger to help him steal the NOC list? [Phelps told them earlier that he stayed in the Drake Hotel, so Ethan made the link that way - there's no reason for Phelps to have brought the bible with him unless he needed one, in this case for the biblical references required for the Job communications. He tumbles to Krieger's involvement because the knife used to kill Sarah during the blown mission was the same precise type as the one Krieger uses - which Ethan saw during the CIA infiltration when Krieger threatened to kill the security guard.]
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