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In the Line of Fire

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Rene Russo, John Malkovich, Dylan McDermott View All

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Wolfgang Petersen (Director) View All

Release: Jul. 8th, 1993

Runtime: 2 hours, 8 minutes

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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Takoma11
Eastwood's age also creates an age gap between him and love interest Russo (the actress is literally the same age as Eastwood's daughter).

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JayDee
In fact the character of Frank Horrigan was inspired by real-life Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who was with President John F Kennedy in Dallas and who later broke down on national TV during a live 60 Minutes interview saying that he felt responsible for the President's death.