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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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This guy's pushed your buttons
and you're overreacting a little.
- I'm trying to protect your boss.
- So am I.
We're trailing 12 points in the polls,
and the election's in six weeks.
- He's got to be seen.
- Even if it kills him?
How could being down 12 points
look like good news?
The President was even worse off
weeks ago.
He'll be out with the voters in
the Midwest and then in California.
The President and First Lady
of the United States.
His Ex cellency, the
President of France and his wife.
Agent Raines,
you look devastating tonight.
Good enough to eat...
if you'll pardon the expression.
I try to sympathize with you,
but you really do annoy me.
Why sympathize?
The tape of that phone call.
When he mentioned your wife.
- Ex-wife.
- At any rate, I'm sorry.
Strange, I get sympathy from
an assassin and a woman I annoy.
- Would you care to dance?
- Perhaps some other time.
I get off in a couple of hours.
- What are you looking at?
- Where do you hide your firearm?
Don't tell me, let me guess.
We're on our final approach to L.A.
It's a beautiful day out there.
Thanks for flying with us.
We hope to see you again.
- Deposit this in the new account.
- I'll need to see your papers.
"Microspan Corporation. "
What kind of business are you in?
- Software.
- Up in San Jose?
I'm based there,
but I'm opening an office in L.A.
You're not from San Jose?
Where are you from?
- Minneapolis.
- You're kidding! So am I.
Well, it's a small world.
I hated the winters.
I used to stay in and pig out.
- What high school did you go to?
- New Brighton High school.
- There isn't any New Brighton.
- There was when I was there.
Well, maybe I'm just confused.
It happens a lot.
- There was a school across from...
- I'm late, will this take long?
Not at all, just another minute.
Thank you.
- You have a very pleasant manner.
- Thank you, Mr. Carney.
How would you like
to give a colleague a ride home?
- Why do you keep flirting with me?
- Am I?
- You know it can't go anywhere.
- That's why I do it.
Come on, I'll buy you an ice cream.
No further obligations.
- How many female agents are there?
- About 125.
- Pure window dressing.
- Excuse me?
Window dressing.
You're around so the President
looks good to his feminist voters.
- Do make an effort to be obnoxious?
- It's a gift.
We do a lot of window dressing.
Like running with the limousine.
It'd take an anti-tank missile
to put a dent in it.
But it makes the President
look more presidential.
If I'm here for the feminist vote,
what demographics do you represent?
White, piano-playing,
heterosexuals over the age of 50.
There ain't a lot of us,

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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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