In the Line of Fire (1993)

Release date: 1993-07-09
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 7.2/10
Length: 2h 8min

Storyline

Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) is a Secret Service Agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked Agent by President John F. Kennedy, he became one of the few Agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former C.I.A. assassin Mitch Leary (John Malkovich) is stalking the current President (Jim Curley), who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the President because Leary feels betrayed by the government. Leary was removed from the C.I.A., and the C.I.A. is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to Presidential protection duty, working with fellow Secret Service Agent Lilly Raines (Rene Russo). Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he's more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent (Fred ...

Plot Keywords

interrupted sex, miniskirt, f word, gun, assassination of president, assassination plot, dog, taunting, second chance, firearm, assassin, assassination, assassination attempt, american president, blonde, airport, news report, revolving door, wiretapping, presidential election

Short Review

Generously exciting, In the Line of Fire is mercifully free of that artificial energy that makes so many new movies look as if they were created with steroids.