Wolfgang Petersen

In The Line Of Fire Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen directs this thriller starring Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich. Ever since he failed to save the life of President John F. Kennedy in the 1963 Dealey Plaza assassination, secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Eastwood) has had to live with the guilty feeling that maybe things would have been different if he had reacted more quickly.

30 years after the event, when the U. S. President begins receiving death threats, Horrigan investigates and finds the culprit to be master-of-disguise Mitch Leary (John Malkovich). However, a simple arrest is out of the question, for Leary knows about Horrigan's weakness and is determined to use it against him in a lethal game of cat and mouse.