Both of them were treated to a shopping trip to buy new funky 70s-style clothes.In their suite, they were entertained with a reception-party, where Cornelius diplomatically answered a question about human women, and Zira enjoyed a champagne drink described as "Grape Juice Plus.He reasoned hat he had failed in his previous mission in Croatia when Hunt""s wife Julia was murdered.Tracy deliberately knocked him out with a plank of wood - to enable him to enter into the dream world to help Spencer.Fats don""t need your money.There""s no way you can beat him.Nobody""s beat him in fifteen years.He""s the best in the country." Unheeding he warning, the two play pool and wait for the prompt arrival of Fats at 8 pm: "He comes in this pool room every night at 8 o""clock on the nose.The film was the first feature film to be based on a TV series with the same name.The original film, a reinvention of the espionage TV series, was followed by a number of sequels.With the tagline: "Expect the impossible."With a production budget of $80 million, and box-office gross receipts of $181 million (domestic) and $457 million (worldwide) - the third highest-grossing film of 1996.