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Breach
Directed byBilly Ray
Written byBuncha guys
Produced bySome big shot
StarringA bunch of pretty good Thespians.
Music byBeethoven
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
February 16, 2007 (2007-02-16)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$40,953,935, which is pretty gross.

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Breach 'is' this really 'cool' [vague] 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

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Eric O'Neill is this young FBI kid assigned (here lies <ref name="george">here we go</ref&tg;): [1] (There it was.) [a] 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.

  1. a"These are the Times that dry men's soles" said he, as he stood on newspapers after a walk in the rain.
  2. ^ George

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

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More critical

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Even more critical

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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."[2] She's full of it, too.[3]

  1. ^ George
  2. ^George was here.

Super critical

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Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor named Breach the best film of the year.[4] Richard Schickel of Time ranked it #6 and called Chris Cooper's performance "brilliant". [5] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post named it the ninth best film of 2007.[4]

Accuracy

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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.[6] 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.[7]
  • Unlike in the movie, O'Neill never saw Hanssen after the arrest.[6]
  • While O'Neill did obtain Hanssen's PDA, he took it to FBI techs to download rather than downloading it himself.[7]====(Time 2222)

Transclusion and stuph

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If I had a user page, this would be it.

References

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  1. ^ here we go
  2. ^ San Francisco Chronicle, February 16, 2007
  3. ^ Night, Things First (2010-01-01). "Click here to find out what this is" (HTML) (in Foul). Right here: You know. p. 999. Retrieved 1776-07-04XXX {{cite web}}: Check |authorlink= value (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); External link in |authorlink= (help); More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link) CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  4. ^ a b Metacritic.com
  5. ^ "50 Top 10 Lists of 2007", Time
  6. ^ a b Interview with Ray and O'Neill
  7. ^ a b ABC interview with Eric O'Neill

Time, Also time (2222). "Justa Ref". Me. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)

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Category:2007 films Category:Films shot in Toronto Category:American films Category:Docudramas Category:2000s thriller films Category:American spy films Category:Films based on actual events Category:Films set in Washington, D.C. Category:Films shot in Virginia Category:Universal Pictures films

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