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Synopsis: 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. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President's itinerary, while Horrigan's boss, Secret Service Dir

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Director(s): Wolfgang Petersen

Actors: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott

Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 13 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.2
Metacritic:: 74
Rotten Tomatoes:: 96%

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: R
Year:: 1993
: 128 min
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- What are you referring to?
Am I paranoid,
or is he busting my balls?
Probably a little of both.
Bill, there was a time around here
when I was almost as arrogant as you.
I don't have time for this. I've got
to pull 75 agents out of Miami.
Keep me posted, Sam, will you?
- So what do we do with this guy?
- We keep investigating.
- Tap my phone.
- Will he call again?
- He'll call. He's got panache.
- Panache?
- Yes, it means flamboyance.
- I know what it means.
- Really? I had to look it up.
- All right, we'll tap your phone.
By the way, Watts isn't nearly
as arrogant as you were.
Just what reputation was Watts
referring to, Sam?
You know.
Am I considered a borderline burn-out
with questionable social skills?
What do you want to talk to me
about, besides your reputation?
I want to be assigned
to the President.
Protection? After all these years?
Frank, you're a dinosaur.
- This guy's gonna make a try.
- Watts will fight me all the way.
You owe it to me.
- I've kept you in a job.
- I've got to come back.
Do you really want
to stand post again? At your age?
Yeah, I've got at least
one pair of good shoes somewhere.
We're stopping.
Traveller wants to work the ropes.
The French President's coming.
Get a security man up here.
Damn it! Get back.
- What's going on here?
- Horrigan had a heart attack.
- Hey, are you okay?
- Get the hell out of here.
- What's going on?
- I had a call about a cardiac case.
- Are you all right, Frank?
- I'm on my break here.
I get it, you bastards.
Who's the wise guy?
Okay, everybody, back to work.
- All right, who was the joker?
- It may not have been a joke.
- You were looking peaked today.
- I'll pay him back in spades.
How can you be sure it was a him?
- You've missed my street, Al.
- Why don't you have a car?
I lived in New York a long time.
I like public transportation.
If you like buses,
why make me go out of my way?
I like your company.
- He's a weird-looking guy.
- Lf he still looks like that.
Pull up over here.
The President's election troubles
were hardly apparent today.
He and the French President
stopped twice to greet the crowds.
The Senate has yet to react
to the new French trade agreement.
The French will host a formal dinner
at their embassy for the President.
Presidential advisors are pleased...
...with the publicity this
has brought in an election year.
It's a weird sub-culture, Al.
Send some agents to check this out.
- Ask about some whackos.
- I'll get on it in the morning.
Hang on, I've got the other line.
- Yeah?
- Frank.
- Booth, how are you doing?
- I'm fine, thanks.
Hang on,
I'll get rid of the other call.
- You got it?

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Jeff Maguire

Jeff Maguire (born 1952) is an American screenwriter.Regarded for his talent for writing sports films, Jeff Maguire got his first screenwriting break with his script Escape to Victory, a film about soccer directed by John Huston in 1981. His most recent contribution is Gridiron Gang, released in 2006. Maguire's most famous film is In the Line of Fire starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, for which he received a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for 1993. In 1990 Maguire was approached by producer Jeff Apple to develop his Secret Service agent concept into a film treatment. Maguire was in debt to his relatives and about to have his utilities turned off when his script based on Apple's concept, "In the Line of Fire," went into a bidding war between Tom Cruise, Sean Connery, and Clint Eastwood. When he received a call from Eastwood congratulating him on the completed deal (over $1,000,000.00) Jeff's wife reportedly had to return a dress so they could afford to go out to dinner to celebrate. Prior to this, various moguls had rejected and almost destroyed the story. Dustin Hoffman cleverly added the hero's guilt over failing to save JFK, then exited; Tom Cruise's people demanded this be deleted, because a 28-year-old hero would not have been around for JFK. The dead-broke writer spurned about $100,000 from Cruise, but wound up with Clint Eastwood and about $1,000,000.Jeff Maguire is a graduate of Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, Maguire was once a railroad worker, a waiter, and a volunteer counselor with Mother Teresa's group, Missionaries of Charity, in the Pico-Union section of downtown Los Angeles, working primarily with Hispanic gangs. In the 1980s and 90s, he also frequented the famous Manhattan Beach, California video store Video Archives, where future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary were clerks. Today, Jeff Maguire is a follower of Meher Baba and has contributed to the Meher Baba journal, Glow International.Jeff Maguire appears in In the Line of Fire briefly as a secret service officer running alongside the president's limousine. more…

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