![]() Cooper's Hanssen is such a formidable presence, he terrifies everyone he meets. ROBINS: It is Chris Cooper, however, as the complicated and contradictory Hanssen, who dominates "Breach" as the man he portrays dominated his own world, setting the rules of the game he played and demolishing them with equal aplomb. Started spying for the Russians, we think, in 1985. Four our purposes it was sort of necessary. LINNEY: (As Burroughs) Well, that was inevitable. LAURA LINNEY (Actress): (As Kate Burroughs) You've come to admire him, I see? And no actress is better than Laura Linney at personalizing smart, powerful women. So he's well cast as someone who will have to play a double game with a world-class double agent. Ryan Philippe is an actor whose charisma is cold and stoical. He will be working for Robert Hanssen, but his real job is to both spy on the man and gain his confidence. A young FBI trainee played by Philippe is given a new assignment by a special agent played by Laura Linney. ROBINS: After Ashcroft, "Breach" flashes back two months. COOPER: (As O'Neill) Who was calling you in the car? PHILIPPE: (As Hanssen) What are you doing? You got three seconds to fire five shots. COOPER: (As Hanssen) Left hand, right hand, five guards with gun and holster. CHRIS COOPER (Actor): (As Robert Hanssen) You want to be an agent or don't you? RYAN PHILIPPE (Actor): (As Eric O'Neill) What are you doing? News footage of the Ashcroft statement is the first thing you see on screen in "Breach." It took enormous confidence for director Billy Ray to begin this way, to jettison the potential hook of is he guilty or not that a lesser film would have clung too for dear life.īut because "Breach" has the kind of involving situations and smart dialogue that make gifted actors grateful, it doesn't need extra help. The film's title comes from a statement by former Attorney General John Ashcroft, who described the 2001 arrest of veteran FBI agent Robert Hanson for spying for the Soviet Union as, quote, "a very serious breach in the security of the United States." It stars - Ryan Philippe, Laura Linney and the formidable Chris Cooper - have the talent to turn a headline-making story into subtle and complex drama. At its core are the intricacies of human relationships. KENNETH TURAN: "Breach" is a crackling tale of real-life espionage that doubles as a compelling psychological drama. Los Angeles Times and MORNING EDITION film critic Kenneth Turan has this review. The movie has a one-word title, "Breach." ![]() A new movie features the story of an American citizen who failed the test of keeping his country's secrets. ![]()
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