

In the Line of Fire
An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them…
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $40M
- Box office
- $177M
- Language
- English
- assassin
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- usa president
- the white house
- bodyguard
- stalking
- election
- secret service
- mysterious
- aggressive
- u.s. secret service agent
- suspenseful
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- Digital / OTT8 Jun 2020
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR8 Jul 1993
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical151 Mar 1994
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalBlu-ray14 Jun 2021
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM7 Oct 1993
CanadaCA
- PhysicalDVD27 Feb 2001
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical22 Jul 1993
AustriaAT
- Theatrical29 Oct 1993
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1628 Oct 1993
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+1 Oct 1993
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1527 Oct 1993
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical29 Apr 1994
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In the Line of Fire was released on 8 July 1993.
Audience reviews
3- R7/10
r96sk
1/23/2022
I 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 fair few well known peeps behind them, including John Heard and Gary Cole - it's a fairly strong cast. The story is an interesting one, though given that you'd expect t…
- F7/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
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 of the President. There are loads of films like this, such as “Air Force One” or “Olympus Has Fallen”, which may help to explain why it ended up so forgotten, despite bei…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/1/2026
A 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 Office. Of course, “Horrigan” alerts his bosses but with a knife-edge election looming, nobody is interested in hunkering down and hoping the threat goes away. It doesn’t h…
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