Storyline
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.
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Cast
Gary Cole, John Malkovich, Ryan Cutrona, Clint Eastwood, Aaron Michael Lacey, William Shipman, Gregory Alan Williams, Brian Libby, Carl Ciarfalio, Clyde Kusatsu, Robert Peters, Fred Dalton Thompson, Steve Railsback, Tobin Bell, Anthony Peck, John Mahoney, John Heard, Rene Russo, Cylk Cozart, Alan Toy, Dylan McDermott, Patrika Darbo, Steve Hytner, Joshua Malina, Elsa Raven, Robert Alan Beuth, Eric Bruskotter, Rick Hurst, Susan Lee Hoffman, Tyde Kierney, Bob Schott, Michael Graziano, Walt MacPherson, Lena Banks, Jim Curley, Sally Hughes, Arthur Senzy, Lawrence Lowe, William G. Schilling, Ian Paul Cassidy
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Reviews
100
The New York Times
It's movie making of the high, smooth, commercial order that Hollywood prides itself on but achieves with singular infrequency.
88
The director is Wolfgang Petersen ("Das Boot"), who is able to unwind the plot like clockwork while at the same time establishing the characters as surprisingly sympathetic.
80
It's not the deepest thematic concern you ever saw on screen. But it's watchable, great fun.
78
In the Line of Fire is a terrific action movie with good performances and a smart script that occasionally falters for trying too hard but, on the whole, takes us on psychological journeys that few of us have had opportunities to experience.
75
ReelViews
Petersen takes what could have been a muddled motion picture and structures it perfectly, creating a strong piece of entertainment. It helps, of course, that he has a capable cast.
