In The Line Of Fire

Starring: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich Director: Wolfgang Petersen Original UK Premiere: 1993 Dvd Release: 18th February, 2002 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Collector's Edition, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish Dubbed In: French, German

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In the Line of Fire is a 1993 film about a psychopath who attempts to assassinate the President of the United States. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen & stars Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent assigned to protect the President & John Malkovich as the would-be assassin. An important plot premise is that Eastwoods character is supposedly the sole Secret Service agent remaining on active duty from the detail that was guarding John F Kennedy in Dallas at the time of his murder. Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott & Fred Dalton Thompson also star. The movie was distributed by Columbia Pictures & Castle Rock Entertainment. Malkovich for best supporting actor, Jeff Maguire for best original screenplay & Anne Coates for best editing.

This smart, tautly directed thriller from Wolfgang Petersen is about the cat-and-mouse games between a Secret Service agent named Horrigan & the brilliant, psychopathic assassin whos itching to get the President in his cross hairs. In the Line of Fires back-story, Horrigan is haunted by his inability to prevent John Kennedys assassination , is more than a little hokey, but the plotting itself is smartly, even ingeniously, constructed. Petersen manages a vice-like grip on the tension & Eastwood even gets to deliver an ever-more-timely lecture on the diminished nature of the office of President. Eastwoods as gruff & as infuriating to the by-the-book Powers That Be as ever & Malkovich oozes delightful menace. Rene Russo capably co-stars as a colleague with whom Horrigan gets friendly.

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John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer & director. As a youngster, Malkovich was reportedly heavy set. By High School, he had transformed himself physically & was a star athlete. He attended Eastern Illinois University with an interest in ecology. In 1976, Malkovich became a charter member of Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. He moved to New York City in 1983 & appeared in the play True West. He appeared on Broadway with Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman. Malkovich won an Emmy Award for this role when the play became a television movie. He made his film debut in Places in the Heart for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. In 1994, he was nominated for an Oscar in the same category for In the Line of Fire. Malkovich has been based in France for many years but has recently announced he is ending his residency in that country. Posters Of John Malkovich

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Wolfgang Petersen is a German film director. Petersen is best known for the classic of World War II submarine warfare, Das Boot. Wolfgang Petersen was born during World War II on 14 March 1941 in the small north German community of Emden, where the Ems River flows into the North Sea. From 1953 to 1960 Petersen attended the Johanneum school in Hamburg. In the 1960s he was directing plays at Hamburgs Ernst Deutsch Theater. After studying theater in Berlin & Hamburg, Petersen attended the Film & Television Academy in Berlin. His first film productions were for German television & it was during his work on the popular German Tatort TV series that he first met & worked with the actor Jürgen Prochnow — who would later appear as the U-boat captain in Das Boot. Petersens first actual full-blown Hollywood effort, Enemy Mine, was neither a critical nor a box office success. He finally hit his stride in 1993 with the assassination thriller In the Line of Fire. Posters Of The Perfect Storm

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