feuding former U.S. Presidents (Jack Lemmon, James Garner) are hunted by NSA agents under orders from the current Vice-President George Wallace – 1997 television film by John Frankenheimer about Alabama governor George Wallace (Gary Sinise) and his failed assassination in 1972 The Assignment – 1997 film by Christian Duguay in which the CIA has a U.S. Navy officer (Aidan Quinn) impersonate terrorist Carlos the Jackal so that the KGB will assassinate the genuine Carlos Sharpe's Waterloo – 1997 television film by Tom Clegg in which Lt. Col. Sharpe (Sean Bean) fails to kill his commanding officer, the Dutch crown prince William, Prince of Orange, for cowardice at the 1815 Battle of Waterloo The Jackal – 1997 quasi-remake (of The Day of the Jackal) by Michael Caton-Jones where Russian gangsters dispatch an international assassin (Bruce Willis) to kill the FBI Director, and the agency (Sidney Poitier) seeks aid from an Irish terrorist (Richard Gere) and a Basque separatist (Mathilda May), but the actual target is discovered to be the wife of the U.S. President Air Force One – 1997 film by Wolfgang Petersen in which Russian neo-nationalists take over the U.S. President's plane, and execute White House staff, leaving the President (Harrison Ford) to fight to regain control The Peacekeeper – 1997 film by Frédéric Forestier in which a USAF officer (Dolph Lundgren) must foil the assassination of the U.S. President (Roy Scheider) Shadow Conspiracy – 1997 film by George P. Cosmatos about an aide (Charlie Sheen) who uncovers a plot against the U.S. President (Sam Waterston) A Further Gesture (a.k.a. The Break) – 1997 film by Robert Dornhelm where an IRA hitman (Stephen Rea) in New York City helps Guatemalan friends with their assassination plot Conspiracy Theory – 1997 film by Richard Donner in which a disturbed, conspiracy-obsessed cab driver (Mel Gibson) discovers he is a CIA assassin The Informant – 1997 film by Jim McBride where an IRA man becomes a 'supergrass' after being caught trying to assassinate a judge Grosse Pointe Blank – 1997 comedy by George Armitage about a depressed professional assassin (John Cusack) at his high school reunion Assassin(s) – 1997 French film by Mathieu Kassovitz about two professional killers, older (Michel Serrault) mentoring younger (Kassovitz) The Man Who Knew Too Little – 1997 spoof by Jon Amiel, starring Bill Murray as an American on vacation in England who is mistaken for a hitman involved in