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In the Line of Fire
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1470
- IMDb #1711
- Google retired #1922
- Rotten Tomatoes #839
- Metacritic #1052
- Letterboxd #2056
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #320
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1744
- Metacritic Critics #1135
- Metacritic Audience #1083
- Criticker #1377
- Douban #1406
- Kinopoisk #2005
- AlloCiné #1841
- Trakt #1821
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96. Critics average 85, everyone else 73.
See the most agreed on films →A seasoned Secret Service agent is haunted by his failure to prevent a presidential assassination decades earlier. Now, a brilliant and obsessive assassin openly taunts him, promising to kill the current president and making the agent a personal target in his deadly game. The agent must use his old-school instincts to outsmart the cunning killer who is always one step ahead.
Details
- Director
- Wolfgang Petersen
- Writer
- Jeff Maguire
- Released
- 8 July 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $177.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| 66th Academy Awards 1994 | Best Supporting Actor | John Malkovich | Nominee |
| 66th Academy Awards 1994 | Best Film Editing | Anne V. Coates | Nominee |
| 66th Academy Awards 1994 | Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Jeff Maguire | Nominee |
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3 awards — In the Line of Fire
×| Best Film Editing | Anne V. Coates | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | John Malkovich | Nominee |
| Best Writing, Original Screenplay | Jeff Maguire | Nominee |