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In the Line of Fire (DVD)

In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American political action thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. Written by Jeff Maguire, the film is about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him. Eastwood s character is the sole active-duty Secret Service agent who is still remaining from the detail that had guarded John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, at the time of his assassination in 1963. The film also stars Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney, and Fred Dalton Thompson.

In the Line of Fire was co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, with Columbia handling distribution. The film was a critical and commercial success. It grossed $187 million against a $40 million production budget and earned three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards.


Plot

Frank Horrigan and Al D Andrea meet with members of a counterfeiting group at a marina. The group s leader, Mendoza, tells Horrigan that he has identified D Andrea as an undercover agent, and forces him to prove his loyalty by putting a gun to D Andrea s head and pulling the trigger. When the gun just clicks, Mendoza is glad to see Frank passed the test, escaping suspicion. Using his own gun, Horrigan then shoots and kills Mendoza s men, identifies himself as a United States Secret Service agent, and arrests Mendoza.

Horrigan investigates a complaint from a landlady about an apartment s absent tenant, Joseph McCrawley. He finds a collage of photographs and newspaper articles on famous assassinations, a model-building magazine, and a Time cover with the President s head circled. When Horrigan and partner D Andrea return with a search warrant, only one photograph remains, which shows a much younger Horrigan standing behind John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963, on the day Kennedy was assassinated. Horrigan is the only remaining active agent who was guarding the President that day, and is wracked with guilt over his failure to react quickly enough to the first shot and shield Kennedy from the subsequent fatal bullet, which could have saved the President s life. The guilt drove Horrigan to drink excessively, and his family left him.

Horrigan receives a phone call from McCrawley, who calls himself Booth . He tells Horrigan that, like John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, he plans to kill the President of the United States, who is running for reelection and is making many public appearances around the country. Horrigan, despite his age, asks to return to the Presidential Protective Division, where he begins a relationship with fellow agent Lilly Raines.

Booth continues to call Horrigan as part of his game , even though he knows that his calls are being traced. He mocks Horrigan s failure to protect Kennedy but calls him a friend . Booth escapes Horrigan and D Andrea after one such call from Lafayette Park, but inadvertently leaves a palm print on a passing car. The Federal Bureau of Investigation matches the print, but because the person s identity is classified, the agency cannot disclose it to the Secret Service. The FBI does notify the Central Intelligence Agency.

At a campaign event in Chicago, Booth pops a decorative balloon. Horrigan, who is groggy with the flu, mistakes the pop for a gunshot and over-reacts. Because of the error, he is removed from the protective detail by White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent and head of security detail Bill Watts, but retains the Booth case. Horrigan and D Andrea follow a lead from the model-building magazine to a Phoenix home belonging to Mitch Leary; upon entering, the two agents subdue an unknown individual, revealed to be a CIA agent working with Leary s associate. The CIA reveals that Leary is a former agency assassin who has suffered a mental breakdown and is now a predator seeking revenge on his former masters. Leary, who has already killed several people as he prepares for the assassination, uses his model-making skills to mould a zip gun out of composite material to evade metal detectors.

D Andrea confides to Horrigan that he is going to retire immediately because of nightmares about the Mendoza incident, but Horrigan dissuades him from doing so. After Leary taunts Horrigan about the President facing danger in California, Horrigan and D Andrea chase him across Washington rooftops, where Leary shoots and kills D Andrea but saves Horrigan from falling to his death as he clings to the side of the building. Horrigan asks Raines to reassign him to the protective detail when the President visits Los Angeles, but a television crew films him mistaking a bellboy at the hotel for a security threat, pinning him against the wall, and Watts and Sargent again force Horrigan to leave the detail.

Horrigan connects Leary to a bank employee s murder and determines that Leary, who has made several large campaign contributions, is among the guests at a campaign dinner at the hotel. He sees the President approaching Leary and jumps into the path of the assassin s bullet, saving the President s life. As the Secret Service quickly removes the President, Leary uses Horrigan—who is wearing a bulletproof vest—as a hostage to escape to the hotel s external elevator. Horrigan uses his earpiece to tell Raines and sharpshooters where to aim; although they miss Leary, Horrigan defeats him, leaving him hanging from the edge. Though Horrigan attempts to save him, Leary commits suicide by letting go and falling to his death.

Horrigan, now a hero, retires, as his fame makes it impossible for him to do his job. He and Raines find a farewell message from Leary on Horrigan s answering machine. Horrigan and Raines visit the Lincoln Memorial, the site of the first time they had gotten together off-duty.


Cast

  • Clint Eastwood as Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan
  • John Malkovich as Mitch Leary / James Carney / Booth
  • Rene Russo as Secret Service Agent Lilly Raines
  • Dylan McDermott as Secret Service Agent Al D Andrea
  • Gary Cole as Secret Service Agent Bill Watts
  • Fred Dalton Thompson as White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent
  • John Mahoney as Secret Service Director Sam Campagna
  • Gregory Alan Williams as Secret Service Matt Wilder
  • Jim Curley as The President / Traveller
  • Sally Hughes as The First Lady
  • Tobin Bell as Marty Mendoza
  • William G. Schilling as Sanford Riggs
  • Cylk Cozart as Secret Service Agent Cozart
  • Clyde Kusatsu as Secret Service Agent Jack Okura
  • Steve Hytner as Secret Service Agent Tony Carducci
  • Patrika Darbo as Pam Magnus
  • John Heard as Professor Riger
  • Joshua Malina as Secret Service Agent Chavez
  • Walt MacPherson as Hunter

Production

Producer Jeff Apple began developing In the Line of Fire in the mid-1980s. He had planned on making a movie about a Secret Service Agent on detail during the Kennedy assassination since his boyhood. Apple was inspired and intrigued by a vivid early childhood memory of meeting Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in person, surrounded by Secret Service Agents with earpieces in dark suits and sunglasses. The concept later struck Apple as an adolescent watching televised replays of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1991, writer Jeff Maguire came aboard and completed the script that would become the movie. In April, 1992, Castle Rock bought the script for $1.4 million.

Eastwood and Petersen offered the role of Leary to Robert De Niro, who turned it down due to scheduling conflicts with A Bronx Tale.

Filming began in late 1992 in Washington, D.C. Scenes in the White House were filmed on an existing set, while an Air Force One interior set had to be built at a cost of $250,000. The film s climactic scenes were shot inside the lobby and elevators of the Los Angeles Bonaventure Hotel, while earlier scenes of Frank and Lilly sharing intimate moments were filmed in the nearby Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel.

A subplot of the film is the President s re-election campaign. For the scenes of campaign rallies, the filmmakers used digitally altered footage from the campaign events of President George H. W. Bush and then-Governor Bill Clinton.

The movie also inserted digitized images from 1960s Clint Eastwood movies into the Kennedy assassination scenes. As Jeff Apple described it to the Los Angeles Times, Clint gets the world s first digital haircut .

In an interview with Larry King, President Bill Clinton praised the film. Unsure if this endorsement would help or hurt the film, Peterson decided against using his quotes to market the film.


Release

In the Line of Fire was released in United States theaters in July 1993. It was one of the first films to have a trailer for the film made available online. Offered via AOL, the trailer was downloaded 170 times in a week and a half.

Box office

The film earned $15 million in its opening weekend. It earned over $102 million in North America and $85 million in other territories, for a total of $187,343,874 worldwide, against a budget of approximately $40 million.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes In the Line of Fire has a Certified Fresh 96% rating based on 71 reviews, with an average rating of 7.80/10. The site s consensus states: A straightforward thriller of the highest order, In the Line of Fire benefits from Wolfgang Petersen s taut direction and charismatic performances from Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich. On Metacritic it has a score of 74 out of 100 based on reviews from 16 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A on an A+ to F scale.

Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: It s movie making of the high, smooth, commercial order that Hollywood prides itself on but achieves with singular infrequency. Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four, writing: Most thrillers these days are about stunts and action. In the Line of Fire has a mind. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times called the film crisply entertaining . He praised the casting, Malkovich’s insinuating, carefully thought out delivery is in the same way an ideal foil for Eastwood’s bluntly straightforward habits , and Eastwood every part of this film trades so heavily on Eastwood’s presence that it is impossible to imagine it with anyone else in the starring role.

Accolades

66th Academy Awards

  • Nominated: Best Supporting Actor (John Malkovich)
  • Nominated: Best Original Screenplay (Jeff Maguire)
  • Nominated: Best Film Editing (Anne V. Coates)

47th BAFTA Awards

  • Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (John Malkovich)
  • Nominated: Best Editing (Anne V. Coates)
  • Nominated: Best Original Screenplay (Jeff Maguire)

Other Awards

  • 1994 Chicago Film Critics Association Award Nomination for Best Supporting Actor (John Malkovich)
  • 1994 Golden Globe Award Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (John Malkovich)
  • 1994 MTV Movie Award Nomination for Best Villain (John Malkovich)
  • AFI s 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains (2003): Mitch Leary – Nominated Villain
  • Mitch Leary – Nominated Villain

Novelization

A novelization of the film was published by Jove Books. Author Max Allan Collins wrote the book in nine days.


Condition

New

Format

DVD

Age Group

Adult

ISBN-10

6304458304

ISBN-13

9786304458303

UPC / EAN

043396523197

Year

1993

ReleaseDate

1993-07-09

RuntimeMins

128

RuntimeStr

2h 8min

Awards

Nominated for 3 Oscars, 2 wins & 17 nominations total

Directors

Wolfgang Petersen

Writers

Jeff Maguire

Stars

Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo

Produced by

Jeff Apple, Gail Katz, Wolfgang Petersen, Robert J. Rosenthal, David Valdes

Music by

Ennio Morricone

Cinematography by

John Bailey

Film Editing by

Anne V. Coates

Casting By

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Production Design by

Lilly Kilvert

Art Direction by

John Warnke

Set Decoration by

Kara Lindstrom

Costume Design by

Erica Edell Phillips

Makeup Department

Sherri Bramlett, Bridget Cook, Werner Keppler, Barbara Lacy, James Lee McCoy, Carol A. O Connell

Production Management

David V. Lester, Danis Regal-O Connell, Joel Chernoff, Tamara Smith

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Violet Cazanjian, Lee Cleary, Michael Grillo, David Michael Katz, Peter Kohn

Art Department

Edward Aiona, Carl Aldana, Robert A. Blackburn, A. Charles Carnaggio, Jann K. Engel, Chris Fix, Kirk D. Hansen, David C. Potter, Michael Sexton, Butch West, Gary J. Coelho, Michael A. Contreraz, Andrea Mae Fenton, Neil Garland, Bill Gold, Ted Hardwick, Tim R. Lafferty, Jim Logiudice, Scott L. London, Nadia Saah, Tommy Samona, Bruce G. Smith

Sound Department

Christopher Assells, Karen Baker Landers, Gregg Baxter, Bob Beher, Willie D. Burton, Dino Dimuro, Scott Martin Gershin, Laura Graham, Gary A. Hecker, Chris Hogan, Constance A. Kazmer, Randy Kelley, Larry Kemp, Rick Kline, David Kneupper, Marvin E. Lewis, Dan O Connell, Kevin O Connell, Alan Rankin, Dan M. Rich, Jay B. Richardson, Bill Rojas, Frank Smathers, Wylie Stateman, Peter Michael Sullivan, Fabio Venturi, Bill Voigtlander, Kim Waugh, James Ashwill, Richard Dwan Jr., Larry Hopkins, Mark Lanza, Glenn T. Morgan, David Terry

Special Effects by

Rocky Gehr, Eric Cook, John Frazier, Richard L. Hill

Visual Effects by

Paul Agid, Nancy Bernstein, Ken Brain, Ron Brinkmann, Jerome Chen, Jerome Desvignes, David Douglas, Bruno George, Robert M. Greenberg, Chip Houghton, Scott Kilburn, Brad Kuehn, Mark A. Lasoff, Jeff Matakovich, George Merkert, John Nelson, Bill Schultz, Burtis Scott, Mar Sorell, Michele C. Vallillo, Mark Vargo, Mimi Abers, Steven T Puri, Jay Riddle, Olivier Sarda, Doyle Smith

Stunts

Michael Adams, John Alden, Daniel W. Barringer, Kenny Bates, Christine Anne Baur, Nick Brett, Roydon Clark, Steve Geray, Andy Gill, Jack Gill, Orwin C. Harvey, Larry Holt, Terry Jackson, Loren Janes, Gary Jensen, Bill Madden, Buck McDancer, Bill McIntosh, Denise Lynne Roberts, Troy Robinson, John Robotham, Sharon Schaffer, Alex Sharp, Spike Silver, Joe Stone, Neezer Tarleton, Buddy Van Horn, Mike Watson, Webster Whinery

Camera and Electrical Department

Mitchell Amundsen, Paul Bode, David Burnett, Scott Fuller, Harry K. Garvin, Peter Gulla, Mauricio Gutierrez, Dustin A. Huber, Gary Jay, Gene Kearney, Gábor Kövér, Ned Martin, Peter McAdams, Bruce McBroom, Mike Moyer, Hal Nelson, Don Reddy, Tony Rivetti, Charles Saldana, Douglas W. Smith, Michael Stone, Dean Striepeke, Kathina Szeto, Donald E. Thorin Jr., Mark Vargo, Charles W. Wayt, Bryan Yaconelli, Ron Zarilla, Mike Bonnaud, Gordon Hayes, Richard H. Kryder, Ron Kunecke, Ron Newburn, Mark Simon, Michael T. Travers, Zoran Veselic, Chuck Whelan

Casting Department

Susanna Griffith, Michael Hirshenson, Kimberly Skyrme

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Kelly Lindquist, Daniel Grant North, Amy Stofsky, Marie Boller, Marina Marit

Editorial Department

Paul Cichocki, Sheri Eisenberg, Steven Kemper, Blake Maniquis, Bob Putynkowski, Robb Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, Scot Deer

Location Management

Kokayi Ampah, Foongy Lee, Michael Wallace, Martine White

Music Department

Bill Abbott, Bob Bowman, Enrico DeMelis, Peter M. Gordon, Andrea Morricone, Ennio Morricone, Franco Patrignani, John Beal, Jeffrey Pollack

Script and Continuity Department

Kerry Lyn McKissick

Transportation Department

Keith Dillin, Joseph Prado, Michael Forte

Additional Crew

Marco Barla, Trey Batchelor, Jackie Brady Baugh, William d Anthony, Melinda A. Grieger, Jamie Kehoe, Tony Kerum, Jacqueline King, David R. Lawson, Gladys Kaye McCall, Charles McGill, Brian McNulty, Gordon Michaels, Sue Bea Montgomery, George Orrison, Daniel Penhale, Karen Penhale, Melissa Rooker, Tom Rooker, Jeri Simon, Corbett Simons, Robert R. Snow, Scott Stahler, Cynthia Streit, Vivian Treves, Loranne Turgeon, Maurice Williams, Laurie Arnow-Epstein, Maureen Higgins, Willis Baxter Johnson, Howard R. Schuster, Melissa Smith, Abraham Zapruder

Thanks

Eliphalet F. Andrew, Wiley T. Buchanan III, Patrick Caddell, Mark A. Crouch, Charles Davis, Walter A. Forbes, James K. Fox, John H. Fullmer, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Horton, Carl Meyer, Gayle Moore, Jerry Parr, Richard A. Sandberry, Philip M. Strub, Jack Warner

Genres

Action, Crime, Drama

Companies

Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment

Countries

USA

Languages

English

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

7.2

ImDb Rating Votes

104133

Metacritic Rating

74

Short Description

In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American political action thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. Written by Jeff Maguire, the film is about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him. Eastwood s character is the sole active-duty Secret Service agent who is still remaining from the detail that had guarded John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, at the time of his assassination in 1963. The film also stars Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney, and Fred Dalton Thompson.

In the Line of Fire was co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, with Columbia handling distribution. The film was a critical and commercial success. It grossed $187 million against a $40 million production budget and earned three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards.

Box Office Budget

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$15,269,388

Box Office Gross USA

$102,314,823

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$176,997,168

Keywords

Assassination of president,assassination attempt,assassination plot,hitman,security detail

Year

1993

ReleaseDate

1993-07-09

RuntimeMins

128

RuntimeStr

2h 8min

Awards

Nominated for 3 Oscars, 2 wins & 17 nominations total

Directors

Wolfgang Petersen

Writers

Jeff Maguire

Stars

Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo

Produced by

Jeff Apple, Gail Katz, Wolfgang Petersen, Robert J. Rosenthal, David Valdes

Music by

Ennio Morricone

Cinematography by

John Bailey

Film Editing by

Anne V. Coates

Casting By

Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins

Production Design by

Lilly Kilvert

Art Direction by

John Warnke

Set Decoration by

Kara Lindstrom

Costume Design by

Erica Edell Phillips

Makeup Department

Sherri Bramlett, Bridget Cook, Werner Keppler, Barbara Lacy, James Lee McCoy, Carol A. O Connell

Production Management

David V. Lester, Danis Regal-O Connell, Joel Chernoff, Tamara Smith

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Violet Cazanjian, Lee Cleary, Michael Grillo, David Michael Katz, Peter Kohn

Art Department

Edward Aiona, Carl Aldana, Robert A. Blackburn, A. Charles Carnaggio, Jann K. Engel, Chris Fix, Kirk D. Hansen, David C. Potter, Michael Sexton, Butch West, Gary J. Coelho, Michael A. Contreraz, Andrea Mae Fenton, Neil Garland, Bill Gold, Ted Hardwick, Tim R. Lafferty, Jim Logiudice, Scott L. London, Nadia Saah, Tommy Samona, Bruce G. Smith

Sound Department

Christopher Assells, Karen Baker Landers, Gregg Baxter, Bob Beher, Willie D. Burton, Dino Dimuro, Scott Martin Gershin, Laura Graham, Gary A. Hecker, Chris Hogan, Constance A. Kazmer, Randy Kelley, Larry Kemp, Rick Kline, David Kneupper, Marvin E. Lewis, Dan O Connell, Kevin O Connell, Alan Rankin, Dan M. Rich, Jay B. Richardson, Bill Rojas, Frank Smathers, Wylie Stateman, Peter Michael Sullivan, Fabio Venturi, Bill Voigtlander, Kim Waugh, James Ashwill, Richard Dwan Jr., Larry Hopkins, Mark Lanza, Glenn T. Morgan, David Terry

Special Effects by

Rocky Gehr, Eric Cook, John Frazier, Richard L. Hill

Visual Effects by

Paul Agid, Nancy Bernstein, Ken Brain, Ron Brinkmann, Jerome Chen, Jerome Desvignes, David Douglas, Bruno George, Robert M. Greenberg, Chip Houghton, Scott Kilburn, Brad Kuehn, Mark A. Lasoff, Jeff Matakovich, George Merkert, John Nelson, Bill Schultz, Burtis Scott, Mar Sorell, Michele C. Vallillo, Mark Vargo, Mimi Abers, Steven T Puri, Jay Riddle, Olivier Sarda, Doyle Smith

Stunts

Michael Adams, John Alden, Daniel W. Barringer, Kenny Bates, Christine Anne Baur, Nick Brett, Roydon Clark, Steve Geray, Andy Gill, Jack Gill, Orwin C. Harvey, Larry Holt, Terry Jackson, Loren Janes, Gary Jensen, Bill Madden, Buck McDancer, Bill McIntosh, Denise Lynne Roberts, Troy Robinson, John Robotham, Sharon Schaffer, Alex Sharp, Spike Silver, Joe Stone, Neezer Tarleton, Buddy Van Horn, Mike Watson, Webster Whinery

Camera and Electrical Department

Mitchell Amundsen, Paul Bode, David Burnett, Scott Fuller, Harry K. Garvin, Peter Gulla, Mauricio Gutierrez, Dustin A. Huber, Gary Jay, Gene Kearney, Gábor Kövér, Ned Martin, Peter McAdams, Bruce McBroom, Mike Moyer, Hal Nelson, Don Reddy, Tony Rivetti, Charles Saldana, Douglas W. Smith, Michael Stone, Dean Striepeke, Kathina Szeto, Donald E. Thorin Jr., Mark Vargo, Charles W. Wayt, Bryan Yaconelli, Ron Zarilla, Mike Bonnaud, Gordon Hayes, Richard H. Kryder, Ron Kunecke, Ron Newburn, Mark Simon, Michael T. Travers, Zoran Veselic, Chuck Whelan

Casting Department

Susanna Griffith, Michael Hirshenson, Kimberly Skyrme

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Kelly Lindquist, Daniel Grant North, Amy Stofsky, Marie Boller, Marina Marit

Editorial Department

Paul Cichocki, Sheri Eisenberg, Steven Kemper, Blake Maniquis, Bob Putynkowski, Robb Sullivan, Robert Sullivan, Scot Deer

Location Management

Kokayi Ampah, Foongy Lee, Michael Wallace, Martine White

Music Department

Bill Abbott, Bob Bowman, Enrico DeMelis, Peter M. Gordon, Andrea Morricone, Ennio Morricone, Franco Patrignani, John Beal, Jeffrey Pollack

Script and Continuity Department

Kerry Lyn McKissick

Transportation Department

Keith Dillin, Joseph Prado, Michael Forte

Additional Crew

Marco Barla, Trey Batchelor, Jackie Brady Baugh, William d Anthony, Melinda A. Grieger, Jamie Kehoe, Tony Kerum, Jacqueline King, David R. Lawson, Gladys Kaye McCall, Charles McGill, Brian McNulty, Gordon Michaels, Sue Bea Montgomery, George Orrison, Daniel Penhale, Karen Penhale, Melissa Rooker, Tom Rooker, Jeri Simon, Corbett Simons, Robert R. Snow, Scott Stahler, Cynthia Streit, Vivian Treves, Loranne Turgeon, Maurice Williams, Laurie Arnow-Epstein, Maureen Higgins, Willis Baxter Johnson, Howard R. Schuster, Melissa Smith, Abraham Zapruder

Thanks

Eliphalet F. Andrew, Wiley T. Buchanan III, Patrick Caddell, Mark A. Crouch, Charles Davis, Walter A. Forbes, James K. Fox, John H. Fullmer, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Horton, Carl Meyer, Gayle Moore, Jerry Parr, Richard A. Sandberry, Philip M. Strub, Jack Warner

Genres

Action, Crime, Drama

Companies

Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment

Countries

USA

Languages

English

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

7.2

ImDb Rating Votes

104133

Metacritic Rating

74

Short Description

In the Line of Fire is a 1993 American political action thriller film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich and Rene Russo. Written by Jeff Maguire, the film is about a disillusioned and obsessed former CIA agent who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and the Secret Service agent who tracks him. Eastwood s character is the sole active-duty Secret Service agent who is still remaining from the detail that had guarded John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, at the time of his assassination in 1963. The film also stars Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, John Mahoney, and Fred Dalton Thompson.

In the Line of Fire was co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, with Columbia handling distribution. The film was a critical and commercial success. It grossed $187 million against a $40 million production budget and earned three nominations at the 66th Academy Awards.

Box Office Budget

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$15,269,388

Box Office Gross USA

$102,314,823

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$176,997,168

Keywords

Assassination of president,assassination attempt,assassination plot,hitman,security detail