Veteran Secret Service agent Pete Garrison investigates a colleague's murder and is subsequently framed as a mole in an assassination attempt on the President due to the machinations of a blackmailer who knows the secret he is hiding. Disgraced, dismissed, and now a fugitive with two relentless federal investigators hot on his heels, Garrison must both clear his name and save the president from assassination.
Acting
Kiefer Sutherland basically playing Jack Bauer again.
Practical Effects
Actual Secret Service consultants kept it technically plausible.
Production
Toronto standing in for DC with mixed success.
Director
Clark Johnson
Michael Douglas
Pete Garrison
Kiefer Sutherland
David Breckinridge
Eva Longoria
Jill Marin
Martin Donovan
William Montrose
Kim Basinger
Sarah Ballentine
Ritchie Coster
The Handler
Blair Brown
National Security Advisor
David Rasche
President Ballentine
Kristin Lehman
Cindy Breckinridge
Raynor Scheine
Walter Xavier
Chuck Shamata
Director Overbrook
Paul Calderon
Deputy Director Cortes
Clark Johnson
Charlie Merriweather
Raoul Bhaneja
Aziz Hassad
Yanna McIntosh
Teddy Vargas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clark Johnson directed multiple episodes of The Wire and Homicide: Life on the Street, bringing that gritty TV realism to this mid-budget thriller.
The film was based on a novel by former Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, who also wrote To Live and Die in L.A., explaining the institutional authenticity beneath the melodrama.
US
