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Mission impossible

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27 June 2015

9:00 AM

27 June 2015

9:00 AM

Tom Cruise has made an awful lot of commercially successful movies.There’s the one in which he cross-examines Jack Nicholson who yells back ‘You can’t handle the truth’. There are all the Mission Impossible movies. Going back a bit there is even his Jerry McGuire, towards the end of which he sweeps into the room containing his love interest and proclaims to her ‘You complete me’.

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