Julia Roberts (Darby Shaw), Denzel Washington (Gray Grantham), Sam Shepard (Thomas Callahan), John Heard (FBI-Agent Gavin Verheek), Tony Goldwyn (Fletcher Coal, Stabschef des Weißen Hauses), James B. Sikking (FBI-Direktor Denton Voyles), William Atherton (CIA-Direktor Bob Gminski), Hume Cronyn (Richter Rosenberg), Robert Culp (US-Präsident), Stanley Tucci (Khamel), Cynthia Nixon (Alice Stark), John Lithgow (Smith Keen), John Finn (Matthew Barr), Stanley Anderson (Edwin Sneller), Anthony Heald (Marty Velmano), Nicholas Woodeson (Stump)