Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood directed the film "White Hunter Black Heart", an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef" about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The African Queen". The film received some critical attention but only had a limited release and earned just $8.4 million. In 1993, Eastwood played Frank Horrigan, a guilt-ridden Secret Service agent in the CIA thriller "In the Line of Fire", co-starring John Malkovich and Rene Russo and directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Eastwood's character, Horrigan, is haunted by his failure to react in time to save John F. Kennedy's
Clint Eastwood in the 1990s murderer Frank Beechum (played by Isaiah Washington) execution. The film was a box office bomb domestically and Eastwood's worst performing film during the 1990s. Later in 1990 Eastwood directed and co-starred with Charlie Sheen in "The Rookie", a buddy cop action film. Critics found the macho jiving between Eastwood and Sheen unconvincing and scenario improbable, and believed that many of the actors were miscast. In 1991, for the third time in his career, Eastwood didn't appear in or direct any films. Instead he was a defendant in a lawsuit after he rammed a woman's car while backing out of his