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08/07/1993 Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery 2h 8m
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An assassin on the loose. A president in danger. Only one man stands between them…

Overview

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.

  1. Wolfgang Petersen

    Director

  2. Jeff Maguire

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Clint Eastwood

    Frank Horrigan

  2. John Malkovich

    Mitch Leary

  3. Rene Russo

    Lilly Raines

  4. Dylan McDermott

    Al D'Andrea

  5. Gary Cole

    Bill Watts

  6. Fred Thompson

    Harry Sargent

  7. John Mahoney

    Sam Campagna

  8. Gregory Alan Williams

    Matt Wilder

  9. Jim Curley

    President

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-01-01
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 help that the would-be killer is an ex-CIA man who is a master of disguise and skilled in plotting and planning covert schemes, so the agent and his colleagues “Lill...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$40,000,000.00

Revenue
$177,000,000.00

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