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Clint "Takes no S!@*" Eastwood as a secret service agent – most believable role ever.

- Several of the scenes with the President campaigning were actually taken from the 1992 campaign of President Bill Clinton.

- To prepare for his role, John Malkovich lived in almost total seclusion for a month prior to filming to connect with Mitch Leary's sense of isolation. He didn't leave his home and wouldn't talk on the phone. He would also rarely watch any television - if he did, it was news programs.

- The 62-year old Clint Eastwood (with the help of a safety belt) actually did hang six stories above the ground on the ledge scene, although stuntmen did the jump and the fall onto the fire escape.

In The Line Of Fire

Rating: R Genre: Thriller

Synopsis:

Clint Eastwood plays a Secret Service agent who failed to save Kennedy, and now must go ego to ego with a serial killer (John Malkovich) in order to save the current president.

Starring:

Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Dalton Thompson, John Mahoney, Gregory Alan Williams, Tobin Bell

Director:

Wolfgang Petersen