DVD 123 min. IMDB 7.2

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Thriller

Clint Eastwood	Frank Horrigan
John Malkovich	Mitch Leary
Rene Russo	Lilly Raines
Dylan McDermott	Al D'Andrea
Gary Cole	Bill Watts
Fred Dalton Thompson	Harry Sargent
John Mahoney	Sam Campagna
Jim Curley	President
Sally Hughes	First Lady
Clyde Kusatsu	Jack Okura
Gregory Alan Williams	Secret Service Agent Matt Wilder

Regisseur	Wolfgang Petersen
Producent	Jeff Apple; Gail Katz
Schrijver	Jeff Maguire

Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Peterson 's taut thriller In the Line of Fire . Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin. Decades later, psychotic Mitch Leary ( John Malkovich ) is stalking another President ( Jim Curley ) running for re-election. He has spent long hours studying the psyche of Frank Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan (feeling that there is a bond between them), telling him of his plans to kill the President. After his conversation with Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he is more than willing to take a bullet. But everything goes Leary's way — he is smart and cagey and the President's aides refuse to alter the itinerary. As the election draws closer, Horrigan's chances to catch Leary look to be less and less a possibility, and he begins to doubt his own abilities — both now and in the past, when Kennedy was murdered. — Paul Brenner