Tom Cruise's next "Mission: Impossible" may be trying to see his kids.

The New York Post reports that Cruise's estranged wife, Nicole Kidman, is preparing to take their two children, Isabella, 8, and Connor, 6, to her native Australia.

Quoting Kidman friends who attended her 34th birthday in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Kidman will press ahead to gain sole custody of the children when the divorce case goes to court in the coming months.

The Post said Cruise is determined to raise the children in the U.S., but he recently allowed Kidman to take the children to London while he was busy completing work on Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report."

Now that the kids are with her, Kidman is planning to return to Australia in the next week. Speculation is that if Kidman doesn't like the outcome of the L.A. court, she will appeal to family courts in Australia -- where Cruise's religion-of-choice, Scientology, is dimly viewed, the report said.

Kidman's friends told The Post she's prepared to put her acting career on hold to prove she's a more suitable parent than Cruise, whose packed schedule will keep him travelling around the world for the next several years.

For her part, publicist Pat Kingsley, who handles public relations for both parents, told The Post: "Tom has had the children for the past six weeks while he's been filming in Los Angeles. They were being home-schooled and are now on their summer break. Tom has had to go to Virginia to finish up 'Minority Report', and the children were put on a plane to London on Monday."

Kingsley added that the couple has worked out a formula for sharing time with the children but added she didn't know if Kidman would take the children to Australia during her custody time.


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