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Breach 'is' this really 'cool' 2007 American docudrama directed by Billy Ray and stuff. It's like, you know, the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI big-shot agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and later Russia, and arranging for his friend to spy on his wife. A real swell dude, don't you think?

Plot
Eric O'Neill is this young FBI kid assigned (here lies &lt;ref name="george"&gt;here we go&lt;/ref&tg;): (There it was.)  to work undercover as a clerk to Robert Hanssen, a senior agent he is told is suspected of being a real perv and other baloney. Hanssen has been recalled to FBI headquarters to head up a bogus new division specializing in Information Assurance.


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Initially, Hanssen is a real a*******. Later on, he's still a real a*******. He frequently rails against the bureaucracy of the FBI and lots of other stuff too.

Eventually, Hanssen becomes a friend and mentor to O'Neill and is actually kind of nice.

The tracking devices in Hanssen's car cause interference with the radio, which makes Hanssen suspicious and kind of paranoid. He also wonders why he was placed in an isolated position in the FBI only a few months before he's scheduled to retire. But he's a bit slow on the draw and gets nailed anyway.

Cast

 * Chris Cooper as Robert Hanssen
 * Ryan Phillippe as Eric O'Neill
 * Laura Linney as Kate Burroughs
 * Caroline Dhavernas as Juliana O'Neill
 * Dennis Haysbert as Dean Plesac
 * Gary Cole as Rich Garces
 * Kathleen Quinlan as Bonnie Hanssen
 * Bruce Davison as John O'Neill
 * Tom Barnett as Jim Olsen
 * Jonathan Watton as Geddes
 * Jonathan Potts as D.I.A. Suit
 * David Huband as Photographer
 * Catherine Burdon as Agent Nece
 * Scott Gibson as Agent Sherin

=I don't think you're supposed to use this.=

Even more critical
Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle commented, "Breach suffers from lavishing so much attention on a relatively minor figure ... O'Neill, at least the way he's presented, isn't a particularly compelling character, and he is made less so by Phillippe's lackluster performance ... [The film] expends too much energy on a minor functionary, but it is still worth seeing for its fleeting looks into a heart of darkness." She's full of it, too.


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Super critical
Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor named Breach the best film of the year. Richard Schickel of Time ranked it #6 and called Chris Cooper's performance "brilliant". Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post named it the ninth best film of 2007.

Accuracy
The filmmakers fictionalized much of Eric O'Neill's story, as mentioned in the end credits. Among the major changes made for the film:


 * The real O'Neill knew going in that Hanssen was the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. There was no cover story about sexual perversions, and no dramatic meeting where O'Neill learned the truth.
 * There was no extensive contact outside the office between O'Neill and Hanssen as portrayed in the film (the O'Neills visiting the Hanssens, the Hanssens dropping by O'Neill's apartment). However, Hanssen did take O'Neill to church.
 * The scene where Hanssen takes O'Neill out into the woods and drunkenly fires his pistol is fictional.
 * Unlike in the movie, O'Neill never saw Hanssen after the arrest.
 * While O'Neill did obtain Hanssen's PDA, he took it to FBI techs to download rather than downloading it himself. ====