Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 04/21/06 Home Video 08/29/06 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for some intense action violence and a scene of sensuality Running Time 1 hour 48 minutes Genre Crime, Suspense Director Clark Johnson Writer George Nolfi, Gerald Petievich Cast Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger, Kiefer Sutherland Studio 20th Century Fox |
THE SENTINEL
SYNOPSIS
Pete Garrison is a U.S. Secret Service agent who
saved a president's life by jumping in front of a hail
of bullets, over twenty years ago.
Well-liked and respected by his colleagues in the
Secret Service, Garrison is a career agent who
now heads the First Lady's detail. He lives in a
high-level, orderly world of hierarchical structure,
plans, maps, motorcades, code names, lingo and
procedures.
It's a universe that makes sense, until secrets
begin to tear it apart. Pete's fellow agent and friend,
Charlie Merriweather, hints at wanting to share
critical and confidential information. Before that
can happen, however, Merriweather is shot dead at
his house in a crime that is made to look like a
botched robbery.
The investigation falls to the Secret Service's top
investigative agent, David Breckinridge, a volatile
combination of by-the-book and hothead, Garrison's
protégé, and, until recently one of Garrison's best
friends. Breckinridge follows the evidence and only
the evidence and scrupulously tries to avoid
working from his gut. That's what being a great
investigator requires. Garrison, as perhaps the
greatest protective agent in the service, often has
to work from gut, from pure instinct. In protective
work that is often all you have.
Pete Garrison is a U.S. Secret Service agent who
saved a president's life by jumping in front of a hail
of bullets, over twenty years ago.
Well-liked and respected by his colleagues in the
Secret Service, Garrison is a career agent who
now heads the First Lady's detail. He lives in a
high-level, orderly world of hierarchical structure,
plans, maps, motorcades, code names, lingo and
procedures.
It's a universe that makes sense, until secrets
begin to tear it apart. Pete's fellow agent and friend,
Charlie Merriweather, hints at wanting to share
critical and confidential information. Before that
can happen, however, Merriweather is shot dead at
his house in a crime that is made to look like a
botched robbery.
The investigation falls to the Secret Service's top
investigative agent, David Breckinridge, a volatile
combination of by-the-book and hothead, Garrison's
protégé, and, until recently one of Garrison's best
friends. Breckinridge follows the evidence and only
the evidence and scrupulously tries to avoid
working from his gut. That's what being a great
investigator requires. Garrison, as perhaps the
greatest protective agent in the service, often has
to work from gut, from pure instinct. In protective
work that is often all you have.
Garrison's and Breckinridge's recent falling out was triggered by Breckinridge's mistaken belief that
Garrison was having an affair with Breckinridge's now ex-wife.
Jill Marin, a tough, sassy and ambitious young agent who just graduated second in her class at the
Secret Service Academy, arrives for her first field posting. She has requested a work detail with
Breckinridge because Garrison, while leading a field instruction exercise at the Academy told Jill that
Breckinridge was the best investigator in the entire Service.
Together the trio begins to uncover what appears to be an inside job to assassinate the president – a
traitor in the ranks of the Secret Service. It's never happened in the institution's 141-year history.
Suspicion ultimately falls on Garrison, who's going to find it extremely difficult to clear his name because
someone is framing him.
Whoever is framing Garrison knows he's vulnerable because he's devoting considerable effort to hiding
a monumental secret. Suspected of being treasonous, Garrison goes on the run, pursued by Breckinridge
and Marin – his own colleagues – as he tries to nail the real mole and save the president's life.
--© 20th Century Fox
Garrison was having an affair with Breckinridge's now ex-wife.
Jill Marin, a tough, sassy and ambitious young agent who just graduated second in her class at the
Secret Service Academy, arrives for her first field posting. She has requested a work detail with
Breckinridge because Garrison, while leading a field instruction exercise at the Academy told Jill that
Breckinridge was the best investigator in the entire Service.
Together the trio begins to uncover what appears to be an inside job to assassinate the president – a
traitor in the ranks of the Secret Service. It's never happened in the institution's 141-year history.
Suspicion ultimately falls on Garrison, who's going to find it extremely difficult to clear his name because
someone is framing him.
Whoever is framing Garrison knows he's vulnerable because he's devoting considerable effort to hiding
a monumental secret. Suspected of being treasonous, Garrison goes on the run, pursued by Breckinridge
and Marin – his own colleagues – as he tries to nail the real mole and save the president's life.
--© 20th Century Fox
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