Patriot Games (1992)

A single act of bravery can make a man a hero, and a target. Phillip Noyce's "Patriot Games," adapted from Tom Clancy's bestselling novel, stars Harrison Ford, taking over the role of Jack Ryan from Alec Baldwin. Having left the CIA to teach history at the U.S. Naval Academy, Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife, Cathy (Anne Archer), a surgeon, and their young daughter (Thora Birch) when he stumbles into an attack on a member of the British royal family (James Fox) by a violent splinter group of Irish militants led by Kevin O'Donnell (Patrick Bergin). Though wounded, Ryan foils the attack, killing the younger brother of one gunman, Sean Miller (Sean Bean). After Ryan testifies at his trial, Miller escapes during a prison transfer and, vowing revenge, targets Ryan's family back home in Maryland, including a terrifying attack on Cathy and their daughter on the highway. Determined to protect them, Jack returns to the CIA, where he tracks the group to a desert training camp in North Africa and watches, via satellite, as special forces raid it. But the terrorists strike again, leading to a stormy showdown at Ryan's waterfront home and a speedboat chase across the Chesapeake Bay. James Earl Jones and Samuel L. Jackson co-star, along with Richard Harris as an Irish pub owner connected to the militants.