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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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Year:: 1993
: 128 min
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- Yeah, keep him talking.
- Yeah?
- Trying to trace me?
- Why didn't I think of that?
- You did. You're a good adversary.
- But I was worried about you today.
- Why?
In the motorcade, I thought
you were going to pass out.
You should get in shape
for that kind of duty.
- Yeah, maybe you're right.
- I'm watching your movie.
- Movie?
- November '63. Kennedy's last days.
The arrival in Texas.
It must have been ex citing.
Dallas. That morning at Love Field.
You all look so radiant.
JFK, Jackie and you.
You look so young and able, Frank.
What did happen to you that day?
The only agent to react to the shots
was farther away than you.
You must have looked up at that
window, but you didn't react.
Late at night when the demons come...
...do you see the rifle at the window,
or Kennedy's head being blown apart?
If you'd reacted in time,
could you have saved him?
If you had, that could've been
your head being blown apart.
Do you wish you'd succeeded,
or is life too precious?
What's done is done.
I have that Esquire article
about you and the other agents.
So sad how your wife left you
and took your little daughter.
You were so forthright
about your drinking problem.
And that you weren't easy to live with.
I was so moved by your honesty.
The world can be a cruel place
to an honest man.
What about you, Booth?
What's your story?
It's an epic saga.
I'll talk to you again soon.
It's nice to have a friend.
- Did you get him?
- We got him.
He may have a device that makes it
look like he's using another number.
- This device, how could he get it?
- He could build one.
- Can you trace it?
- We could run a parity check.
- Can you trace the call?
- Not if it's a para-analog line.
Give me a straight answer,
or Al will shoot off his foot.
If he calls again, keep him on
the line. We'll see what we can do.
You might suggest that the police
don't knock down any more doors.
I have that Esquire article
about you and the other agents.
So sad how your wife left you
and took your little daughter.
You were so forthright
about your drinking problem.
And that you weren't easy to live with.
I was so moved by your honesty.
- Okay, but why play it for me?
- Cancel the President's dinner.
The dinner at the French Embassy?
This close to the election?
He manipulated the phone system.
He could have knowledge of explosives.
- Do your job. There'll be no problems.
- There may be arms in the embassy.
You think the French
want to knock off the President?
Why does every chief of staff...
You have no reason to think that
this is anything but an idle threat.
You want me to cancel a state dinner
and risk offending the French?

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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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