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Mood:
- SuspensefulTenseCaptivating
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Plot:
- Government AgencySpecial AgentsBetrayalEspionageWorking UndercoverDishonestyRivalryUndercover more...
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Genres:
- DramaThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- USAWashington DC
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- Based on True Story
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Breach, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Breach
The mood of Breach is tense, suspenseful, and captivating. The plot centers around special agents, a government agency, and working undercover. It is a drama and thriller movie. In approach, Breach is serious and realistic. The setting is Washington DC. It happens in contemporary times. Breach is originally a true story.
Summary of Breach
Chris Cooper (ADAPTATION) gives a remarkable performance as complicated and bitter FBI agent Robert Hanssen in BREACH. Hanssen is a computer specialist who, after 25 years of service, is put under surveillance as a suspected sex offender. Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe, CRASH) is the ambitious young upstart they put on the job, assigning him to pose as Hanssen's new clerk in order to win his trust and keep an eye on his every move. Eric is dismayed to be put on such low-priority detail, accustomed as he is to investigating high-profile terrorism suspects. His reluctance is multiplied as he gets to know the subject of his inquiry; Hanssen is at first harsh towards his young secretary, but as he opens up, Eric gets to know and respect him as a family man of strong Catholic faith. Soon, however, Hanssen is infiltrating Eric's personal life and causing problems between him and his wife, Juliana (Caroline Dhavernas, HOLLYWOODLAND), and just when Eric is about to give up the case, he discovers that it is much bigger than he ever imagined. Eric finds himself in the middle of an investigation into the biggest security breach in U.S. history, forcing him to resort to dramatic and ingenious tactics in order to bring down the suspect. Director Billy Ray's first directorial effort was the dramatization of the Stephen Glass scandal at the D.C. magazine The New Republic in SHATTERED GLASS, and here he once again turns his eye--with great success--to a true story with a complex villain. Cooper's excellent characterization invites pity and horror in equal measure; his performance is well supported in this character-driven thriller by Laura Linney (KINSEY) as the hard-nosed agent leading the investigation, and Phillippe as the resourceful and introspective O'Neill.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 February 2007 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
Cast and Crew
as Robert Hanssen
as Eric O'Neill
as Bonnie Hanssen
as Kate Burroughs
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Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
The New York Times
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- by: Manohla Dargis
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