Breach Page #4

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


too hard on him?

(HORN BLARING)

I think that's your bus.

(DOOR OPENING)

Ta-da!

Will you go

to church with me?

(ORGAN PLAYING)

ALL:
"Lord, I am not worthy

that Thou shouldst

come under my roof.

"But only say the word

and my soul shall be healed."

(PRIEST SPEAKING LATIN)

(ALL RESPONDING IN LATIN)

Sorry, i didn't say it about it.

Oh my Goddess, Vanna, you are right!

Thank you, John.

I just brought this

from the bookstore.

Oh, really?

Sure, why not?

Because of Addie, i never been

at daycare for long long 18 months

since she was born.

And so does Eric!

He made it through

away to go elsewhere!

You can't be true, do you?

Really? I guess so!

That's right, John.

(SIGHING IN BREATH)

"Thou Are Worthy.

"Thou Lord has to receive a glory

onto the power.

"Although he passed the 8 things

Creating the imaginations

"To the lord of God.

And i saw the seven angels which stood for God.

That we gave them seven tokens.

An another angel came stood at the valt

"To heaven of glory ceinsor and they were skipping

forward to which make some sense.

The angel took the ceinsor and filled it

with fire in hazard to leave the words of miracle.

"And the seven angels which had seven trumpets

and weir of mistonies.

The first, second, and third angel had been raced

with blood and mambled with the birth of Jesus.

"In which men die on dead honors because

it's sorrowfully bitter.

And that's when we make a trust sud,

"This is when the witch crueled the God

ailing for many months.

"Saying to the sixth and seventh angel happening to the

trumpets awaiting for trumpets for missing angels.

"Which have been marrowed

in the great prefered inform reverse.

"I heard the number of them...

And the Redstone.

"Sincerely,

Mary."

Of course.

Walking, please.

Walking.

Juliana, how did you

like the service?

It was lovely.

I'd never been to a Mass

where people knelt

the whole time.

Oh. Well, it's a gesture

of devotion.

Taught all our children

not to be grocery-cart

Catholics.

You know, the kind of

churchgoer that takes

whatever's convenient

and leaves the rest

on the shelf.

It's all expected.

Eric is so nice.

Where did you two meet?

We met in a bar, actually.

Oh.

(CHILDREN CHATTERING)

Would you like

some cake, sweetheart?

CHILD:
(SQUEALS) My grandfather!

(DOOR OPENING)

I love Sundays.

Going to Mass.

Having the kids here.

Makes everything else

fade away.

Sorry. I was snooping.

Don't be.

I want you to feel

at home here.

Is this

your father, sir?

Must've been

proud of you.

FBI. Top Soviet analyst.

Oh, I don't know.

Father wasn't very

impressed by things.

He wanted me

to be a doctor.

He rigged

my first driving test,

the day I turned 16.

Made an arrangement

with my DMV instructor.

So you'd pass?

So I would fail.

He thought it would

toughen me up.

I do that, too,

I suppose.

Test people.

More than I ought to.

Oh! Shoot.

Almost forgot.

I have something for you.

It's everything I could get

on Parkinson's.

Downloaded it

last night.

Been quite a bit of progress

in the last few years.

Didn't know

if you were up on it.

Is there someone

in your family

who has Parkinson's?

No. No, thank God.

You know, sir, I think

you're misunderstood.

Oh? By whom?

By whoever gives out

window offices, for one.

Oh, that's all right.

I think I made

too much fuss of all that.

I'll be gone so soon anyway,

what good would a window

do me now?

Fifty-seven in two months,

that's mandatory retirement.

(DOG BARKING)

No, it's fine.

It's time.

I could stay there

another hundred years,

and still just be

an afterthought.

The perks go to the guys

who play the game,

the ones who politick.

I knew a long time ago

I didn't have

the stomach for that.

But I'll get my portrait

on that 25-year wall, right?

Now, that's something.

Doesn't really matter

much, does it?

The judgments of other men?

I know what I've done.

(SCUFFING)

Sounds cool in here, Eric!

I'll come and get you, Vanna!

Oh God!

(LAUGHING AND YELPING)

Will you two knock it off?

Yes, Greg?

Yeah, i'm here.

Do you wanna ling my picture?

You already no lover?

I'm trying to go to sleep.

I think Addie is sleeping.

What's the trouble?

I want to see

what you got on this guy.

Come again?

His Internet postings,

the e-mails.

Your case.

Why?

Because I don't think

you have one.

I can read you in.

I'm authorized to do that.

But it would only put you

at greater risk.

Of what?

What the hell

is all this?

The guy doesn't drink,

doesn't tell dirty jokes.

Goes to church every day,

his wife loves him,

so do his grandkids.

And why the hell

would you hand

a new division

to a guy who's retiring

in two months,

especially if he's

under investigation?

You through?

You know, I think

this whole thing

is cooked.

I think he keeps

shooting his mouth off

about the Bureau

and nobody knows

what to do with him,

so we tag him as

a deviant and run him

out of the building.

It's bullshit.

The whole thing,

it's Kenneth Starr

all over again,

except I'm running around

looking for the blue dress.

You've come to

admire him, I see.

Yes.

Respect him?

Yes.

Well, that was

inevitable.

For our purposes,

it was sort of necessary.

But he's a traitor, Eric.

He started spying

for the Russians,

we think, in 1985.

He's given them

military secrets,

intelligence secrets.

He gave them our

Continuity of Government

Program,

which told them

where the President

would be taken

during a nuclear

or terrorist attack.

And the Vice President.

And the Congress.

And the Cabinet.

The damage he's done

to the U.S. Government

is in the billions.

But that's just

the money part.

He's also

given up lives.

BURROUGHS:

Sources we were working

In one of his drops,

he identified Valery Martynov

and Sergei Motorin,

two KGB agents we'd turned

They were flown back

to Moscow and executed

We don't have a handle yet

on how many of our assets

he's compromised.

Maybe 50, maybe more.

HANSSEN ON TAPE:

I shouldn't tease you

That just gets me

into trouble

(MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

BURROUGHS:

Our file on him came

from two Russian defectors

The Bureau paid

$7 million for it

Of course,

everything in the file

is inadmissible

We make our own case

independently, or he walks

Oh, not that it matters,

but the sexual stuff

is also true.

Irrelevant, but true.

The stories on the Internet,

they're about his wife.

Using her real name

Sweet little anecdotes about

how much she loves rough sex,

that sort of thing

He's a big fan

of strippers, too.

Has been for years.

But his grandchildren

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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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