Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 0025193227621
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1SpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1FrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: MCAD61032276D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 111 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: February 16, 2007

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Inspired by true events this takes you deep inside the halls of the fbi for a top-secret investigation to uncover the greatest breach in the history of u.S. Intelligence. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/06/2008 Starring: Chris Cooper Ryan Phillipe Run time: 111 minutes Rating: Pg13

Amazon.com:
Is a mystery really mysterious when the end isn't a secret? Is espionage still thrilling when you know beforehand that the cloak has been pulled back and the dagger revealed? If it's a film as good as Breach, the answer is a resounding yes. Here is a true story that's genuinely stranger than fiction: FBI agent Robert Hanssen spent over 20 years selling government secrets to the Russians, making him the most egregious traitor in U.S. history. He was an Opus Dei Catholic and a devout churchgoer who was also a sexual deviant, a straitlaced company man so trusted by his employers that they once appointed him to lead an investigation designed to reveal who the spy was--when in fact it was Hanssen himself. And in the end, he was brought down in part by 26-year-old Eric O'Neill, an agent-in-training who worked with him for just two months. Chris Cooper, a 2003 supporting actor Oscar winner for Adaptation, is brilliant in the lead role, playing Hanssen as a dour, cold, ultraconservative cipher (women in pantsuits are just one of his peeves) whose conversations more closely resemble interrogations. Ryan Phillippe is also excellent as O'Neill, who's initially kept in the dark by the superior (Laura Linney) who assigned him to help expose Hanssen's treachery; thinking he's been brought in only to gather evidence about his boss' sexual transgressions, O'Neill finds himself caught in a profound moral conundrum, grudgingly admiring Hanssen even as his own marriage is severely tested by the older man's creepy and hypocritical intrusion into their lives, not to mention the FBI's strict rules against discussing the case.

Director Billy Ray (whose previous feature was also a true story: Shattered Glass, about the young writer who fabricated stories for The New Republic) and co-screenwriters Adam Mazer and William Rotko do an extraordinary job of maintaining the tension as the story leads to the conclusion that's been revealed in the first few frames (i.e., Hanssen's arrest in February 2001); the exquisite torture of O'Neill's having to keep Hanssen distracted while Bureau technicians search the latter's car is but one example. Moreover, notwithstanding the plot developments, the filmmakers manage to keep their focus on the personal interactions that are the film's key element: the relationships that O'Neill maintains with Hanssen, his father (a cameo by Bruce Davison), his wife (Caroline Dhavernas), and others are entirely credible. At once fascinating and horrifying, Breach is inarguably one of the best films of 2007. --Sam Graham




Rating: - spy game
BREACH is thrilling even if you know the outcome. Actually knowing the outcome makes it at times more tense and interesting. Waiting for the inevitable can have more an effect than not knowing what's coming. Basically this is one of those rare true life stories that is as weird, if not weirder than Hollywood could make up. FBI agent Robert Hanseen sold government secrets to the Russians for 20 years, making him the biggest traitor in all of U.S. history. Chris Cooper is one of the finest actors working ... Read More

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Rating: - "Breach"
This movie was not as action-packed as I had thought it would be. I enjoyed the story, but to be quite honest, it came to a close rather abruptly. However, the acting was great!

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Rating: - Your FBI at work, and after only 20 years of traitorous leaks, they bust the case. Chris Cooper is superb
What do you do with an FBI traitor who for 20 years was feeding serious secrets to the Soviets and then to Russia? If you're the FBI, you don't follow up on tips about the guy, you don't get curious that his expensive life style doesn't match his FBI salary, you ignore his extensive, private hetero kinkiness even though a murmur about homosexuality would get another person booted out the door, and you sure don't want to look too hard and then find a scandal on your hands like the CIA's Aldrich Ames.
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Rating: - Excellent
This is a very well made film about a true story of betrayal to one's country and those who work to catch him in the act. I love non-fiction whether it is in book form or films.

Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney are all superb in their roles. The supporting cast does a great job too.

I really enjoyed the special features on the DVD where we meet the real Eric O'Neill and his wife Juliana, along with behind-the-scenes commentary and video.

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Rating: - Tightly woven, briskly paced and utterly absorbing...
`Breach' is a fantastic film that took me by surprise; for I never expecting it to hit all the marks it did. I saw the trailer and expected it to be an average government thriller, but what I got was an above average thriller than not only delivered chills (I was on edge throughout this entire film) but it also delivered the right mixture of drama and justice. It is a thought provoking moral driven film that masters its genre quite easily. Thanks to tight scripting and excellent acting the film is further ... Read More

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