This smart, tautly directed thriller from Wolfgang Petersen is about the cat-and-mouse games between a Secret Service agent named Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) and the brilliant, psychopathic assassin (John Malkovich) who's itching to get the President in his cross hairs. In the Line of Fire's back-story--Horrigan is haunted by his inability to prevent John Kennedy's assassination (Eastwood is computer-generated into archival footage)--is more than a little hokey, but the plotting itself is smartly, even ingeniously, constructed. Petersen manages a vice-like grip on the... tension and Eastwood even gets to deliver an ever-more-timely lecture on the diminished nature of the office of President. Eastwood's as gruff and as infuriating to the by-the-book Powers That Be as ever and Malkovich oozes delightful menace. Rene Russo capably co-stars as a colleague with whom Horrigan gets friendly. --David Kronke [show more]
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Wolfgang Petersen directs this thriller starring Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich. Ever since he failed to save the life of President John F. Kennedy in the 1963 Dealey Plaza assassination, secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) has had to live with the guilty feeling that maybe things would have been different if he had reacted more quickly. 30 years after the event, when the U.S. President begins receiving death threats, Horrigan investigates and finds the culprit to be master-of-disguise Mitch Leary (John Malkovich). However, a simple arrest is out of the question, for Leary knows about Horrigan's weakness and is determined to use it against him in a lethal game of cat and mouse.
Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) is a tough, veteran Secret Service agent who has been plagued by feeling s of guilt and failure since the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As the agent on duty that fatal day, Horrigan feels that he should have reacted more quickly and taken the bullet for the President. Thirty years later, the current President of the United States is entering a re-election campaign, and following a number of death threats, Horrigan has been called in to assist in what should be a routine research operation. However, when he discovers that a professional assassin and master of disguise (John Malkovich) has been tracking the President, the assignment turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Leary uses his knowledge of the events in 1963 to mentally torture Horrigan in the ensuing psychological duel – a duel that will eventually put Horrigan 'In the Line of Fire'... Special Features 3 Featurettes 'Behind-the-Scenes' Audio Commentary Deleted Scenes Audio Commentary from Wolfgang Petersen Filmographies Interactive Menu Scene Access Actors Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, John Mahoney, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Dalton Thompson, Clyde Kusatsu, Bob Schott & John Heard Director Wolfgang Petersen Certificate 15 years and over Year 1993 Screen Widescreen 2.35:1 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (5.1) Subtitles English ; Hindi Duration 2 hours and 3 minutes (approx)
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