Many New Jersey stars appeared in some great sports movies, but only one was featured in a sports movie that is considered one of the five best ever, and it might not be who you think.
When Janeane Garofalo asked Brad Bird, the director of "Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol," about Tom Cruise at a recent Tribeca Film Festival event, she peppered Bird with allusions to the Scientology documentary "Going Clear." Bird called it "a very inside reference," but Garofalo quickly disagreed.
Tom Cruise revealed Tuesday at a surprise appearance at CinemaCon in Las Vegas that he actually hung off the side of an airplane in the film "Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation."