Story Line
Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.
“An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them…”
Top Cast
Clint Eastwood
Frank Horrigan
John Malkovich
Mitch Leary
Rene Russo
Lilly Raines
Dylan McDermott
Al D'Andrea
Gary Cole
Bill Watts
Fred Thompson
Harry Sargent
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Rating
7.0/ 10
Release Date
1993-07-08
Runtime
2h 8m
Genres
ActionDramaThrillerCrimeMystery
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User Reviews (3)
r96sk
7/10
•1/23/2022I wish it was paced better, but <em>'In the Line of Fire'</em> still makes for a good time.
Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich is a great line-up and both are entertaining in this, the latter is just terrific at playing a loopy bad guy. There's a f...
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/10
•11/24/2022**Action, entertainment and verisimilitude together in a film that is better than many others, more regularly remembered.**
This is a conventional American-style action film, where everything revolves around the unassailable and sacrosanct figure ...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/1/2026A veteran of the Kennedy assassination, US Secret Service agent “Horrigan” (Clint Eastwood) now finds himself in contact with the menacing “Leary” (John Malkovich) who has made it clear he has an axe to grind with the current incumbent of the Oval Of...