Taglines: An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them…
In the Line of Fire movie storyline. Frank Horrigan is 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 when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, 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 CIA, and the CIA 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. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he’s more than willing to take a bullet.
In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American action thriller film, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. Written by Jeff Maguire, the film is about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him. Eastwood’s character is the sole active-duty Secret Service agent remaining from the detail guarding John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, at the time of his assassination in 1963. The film also stars Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney, and Fred Thompson.
The film was co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, with Columbia handling distribution. Eastwood and Petersen also originally offered the role of Leary to Robert De Niro, who turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with A Bronx Tale. After In the Line of Fire, Eastwood directed every film he starred in, until 2012’s Trouble with the Curve.
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Gary Cole, , Dylan McDermott, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Mahoney, Gregory Alan Williams, Jim Curley, Sally Hughes
Screenplay by: Jeff Maguire
Production Design by: Lilly Kilvert
Cinematography by: John Bailey
Film Editing by: Anne V. Coates
Costume Design by: Erica Edell Phillips
Set Decoration by: Kara Lindstrom
Art Direction by: John Warnke
Music by: Ennio Morricone
MPAA Rating: R for violence and language.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: July 9, 1993
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