Breach Page #2

Synopsis: In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O'Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O'Neill's wife resents Hanssen's intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film's story. Can O'Neill help catch red-handed "the worst spy in history" and hold onto his personal life?
Original Story by: Pamela Dionne
Director(s): Billy Ray
Production: Universal Studios
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
PG-13
Year:
2007
110 min
$32,958,840
Website
446 Views


(DOOR CLOSES)

You must know

somebody.

I ordered ours a month ago.

What's wrong, Vanna?

How is the day of the groceries?

Terrifying!

Oh, Vanna.

Is anything okay?

I had an extreme argument with

the employee at the store

and kicked out of it

when i got refused to buy

baby stuff for Addie.

All i need is baby bottles,

baby food, diapers, and whenever!

Oh, sorry for your firing, Vanna!

I promise that, okay?

I am going to talk about Vivian!

She is okay with John and...

I can't take it, Juliana!

You can't take it, Vanna?

Really!

I'm just wanna be serious.

Now take a walk, you innocent lady!

His mother will never forgive me

for the rest of pieces, Juliana.

I am sleeping with his mother, Vanna!

Sir?

Sir, you could fall.

(MOCKINGLY)

I won't fall.

I'm very coordinated.

Trying to re-route

a phone line to get

Internet access.

I can get an IT guy in here

to do that for you, sir.

My Lord, you are as dumb as

a bag of hammers, aren't you?

Yes, let's bring in

an IT guy,

making $35,000 a year,

and give him access

to hard drives

that a foreign agent

would pay millions for.

We're supposed to be

protecting the Bureau

from electronic infiltration.

So, what kind of

sites do you like?

On the Internet.

Are there sites...

Why?

I don't know, just...

I've never seen anyone

stand on top of their desk

to get online before.

Do you pray the rosary

every day?

Hmm?

Your file says

you prepped at Gonzaga,

with the Jesuits.

That's right. I did.

So, do you pray

the rosary every day?

Not every day, no.

You should.

You still want

my list, sir?

The five things?

These are the greatest

pens in the world.

I would never write

with anything else.

Sure.

I won Boy Scout merit

badges in every category

except riflery.

I haven't been to confession

since high school.

There are several words

I constantly misspell.

My favorite drink

is a vodka tonic.

And I'm the only male

in the last four

generations of my family

who hasn't served

in the military.

What is your drink then?

Gin?

Scotch.

It's against Bureau policy

for an agent to consume

alcohol, even off-duty.

Did you know that?

Yes, I did.

Because an FBI agent

is never off-duty.

That comes from

Director Freeh.

We attend the same church.

Who's the pager for?

My wife.

She likes to know she can

get a hold of me 24l7.

Mmm.

She a Catholic girl?

No. Sort of a lapsed

Protestant, actually.

She's East German.

Big fan of Christmas

plays, though.

Have to do something

about that, won't we?

(FAMILY CHATTERING)

VANNA:
Oh, Eric.

I'm glad you came!

So excited to meet you.

This is John and Vivian.

JOHN:
Hello, son.

Hi, dad.

Oh, Vanna!

Vivian, i'm so happy

to be here!

Everyone, i had something to share.

Me and Eric wanted to see those baby pictures

from the photo album.

Wanna see some?

ERIC:
Awww, look at Addie in that baby blue eyes and

holding her.

Sounds cute.

LISA:
Nice.

And look at pictures of me giving birth and Addie being

born in the hospital delivery room.

Ooh.

GREG:
Sweet.

JOHN:
Everybody, dinner's ready!

Let's all sit down on the tables now.

ALL:
Holy Mary, Mother of God,

Pray for us sinners now, and the moon

of yours, the Son of God.

Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed

by the reasoning of faith.

Angels shimmer in the night

on the earth by the nearest from heaven.

In God's trust, declaiming the stand,

every memory we made lined

to the hopes of nation.

Amen.

VANNA:
I'm in.

Cheers!

(RAISING GLASSES)

(KEYBOARD CLICKING)

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

This is Eric.

Is your wife

within earshot?

Huh?

Last I looked, she hadn't

been read into the case.

Can she hear this?

No.

Good Where are my pages?

I just started them.

He kept me there till 10:00.

Uh-huh.

Agent Burroughs, I don't know

what I'm supposed to be

looking for with this guy.

It's not like he's gonna

bring a train of hookers

through the office.

Just get me my pages.

BONNIE:
Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and in the hour

of our death. Amen.

In the name of the Father,

Son and Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning,

is now and ever shall be.

Amen.

Bonnie Wauck.

Bobby Hanssen.

ERIC:
He doesn't think

too much of me.

No?

No.

There are a couple of people

like that at work.

They think I'm a

lightweight,

I guess.

They don't know you.

Maybe they do.

Okay, listen up, i just wanna talk to Vanna for a minute.

Do you have any questions for Addie?

Maybe, i can't believe i spend time with her.

She's quite a little girl that much.

Do you know where Addie is?

She's at daycare, Eric.

I did with Addie not wrong.

Just like what?

I know it's a little crazy, but...

I don't know why.

I can't tell you what to do.

(DOOR BEEPING)

Great.

Good morning.

Good morning.

This is very good work.

Sir, how did you

get a copy of...

It was ignored, I'm sure.

Yes, it was.

That's because

you don't shoot.

Hey there, Juliana!

So hot in here, right?

Yeah. I agree, Vanna.

I know, i think i have some

hours and days and ...

I can't afford to care Addie with

special needs.

Are you assaulting me?

No, i ain't.

I'm so embarrassed to you any day

to see how many years they are!

You don't care when it was

and she won't protect you that

i'm her mother!

Yeah, right!

I know what you are saying

when i am saying!

Fine, Juliana!

I am going to get mad at this!

Vanna, wait!

(DOOR SLAMS)

The FBI is a gun culture.

You can't advance here

unless you're part of it.

Every director in the history

of the Bureau has come from

the law enforcement side.

The guys who shoot,

the guys who make arrests.

There's never

been a director

from the Intel side.

Never will be.

Intel's Siberia.

Sir.

The rubber gun squad.

So why did you stay?

Huh?

All those years, why didn't

you transfer into something

with a higher profile?

Because I never cared

about making headlines.

I wanted to make history.

Sorry.

The people Intel tracks

are the ones who want to

wipe America off the map.

Somehow that always meant

a little more to me

than being promoted.

Why are you reading

about Parkinson's?

My mother.

Oh.

For a few years now.

I'm very sorry

to hear about that.

Good morning.

Morning.

Oh, I forgot to mention, sir,

we got a call from Photo,

about a portrait sitting.

You're going up on the

"25 Years of Service" wall.

Imagine that.

Excuse me.

Lord.

Beautiful woman.

You're married.

I can look, can't I?

God expects you

to live your faith, Eric,

at all times.

Besides, I disapprove

of women in pantsuits.

You do?

Men wear pants.

The world doesn't need

any more Hillary Clintons.

I wrote a program

last night using nothing

but ones and zeroes

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Adam Mazer

Adam Mazer is an American screenwriter. He is the writer of HBO Film’s biopic, You Don't Know Jack, about the life of assisted-suicide advocate, Jack Kevorkian.Mazer was the co-writer of the 2007 Universal Pictures feature film, Breach, starring Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe and Laura Linney. Directed by Billy Ray, Breach is based on the true story of the FBI’s most notorious spy, Robert Hanssen. Adam and his former partner, Bill Rotko, optioned the rights of the young FBI aide who worked side-by-side with Robert Hanssen and played a vital role in his arrest. The movie was released in February, 2007. He’s recently finished the screenplay, The Sentry Keep; based on the true story of a 1982 New York City armored car company heist, that at the time, was the largest cash heist in U.S. history. Dito Montiel (A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Fighting) is attached to direct. The movie is being produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films. He’s also currently working on a one-hour TV pilot, Contingency, with the television production company, Reveille (The Office, Ugly Betty). Contingency is set in the early 1980s and explores the wild early days of a Personal Injury law firm. Additionally, he wrote the one-hour TV pilot, Ghosts, for the CW Network. The drama deals with the personal and professional lives of young undercover FBI Agents who work in an elite unit called the “Special Surveillances Group”. Prior, Adam sold the family comedy, Big Baby, (co-written with Gregg Lichtenstein) to Warner Brothers with Neal Moritz and Richard Suckle producing, and Raja Gosnell attached to direct. Adam was a founding partner of Point Blank Entertainment where he was an Associate Producer on the outrageous ensemble comedy, Super Troopers. The film was sold at the Sundance Film Festival and released in 2002 by Fox Searchlight. Adam’s other efforts include his screenplay, The Amateur which was set up with the Kennedy-Marshall Company. Based on true events, The Amateur tells the story of 19-year-old golfer Francis Ouimet’s remarkable underdog victory at the 1913 U.S. Open. He also wrote the police corruption drama, Officer Down, the comic book fantasy adventure, The Last Ride of Waterloo Clyde, and Shelter From the Storm – an adaptation of Stephen Miller’s southern mystery novel, A Woman in the Yard. Upon graduating from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in 1989, Adam moved to Los Angeles and partnered with Bill Rotko (A&E’s recent The Beast) until 2005. They sold their first screenplay, Freeze – a harrowing Antarctic action-adventure – to Columbia Pictures and Mandalay Pictures. more…

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