Maguire was broke and on the verge of moving his family from California to New Hampshire when he learned that his screenplay for "In the Line of Fire" (1993)--which became a Clint Eastwood blockbuster--had been purchased to be made into a film. Though his family had to endure seven years of financial near-disaster, Maguire's work may well have benefited from the series of life lessons (e.g., early professional failure; drug abuse; working as a waiter in Beverly Hills; volunteering as one of Mother Teresa's counselors to L.A. street gangs; and becoming involved with the teachings of a
