Breach Page #6

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 between marriage and fatherhood for assistance?
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
459 Views


I just want to grab

a drink and go to bed.

Are you going to quit?

I want you to quit.

I felt sick

all day, Eric.

It's like you're someone else

when he's around.

I'm sorry it's been

a stressful day for you.

Let's not make it worse.

I don't know.

Maybe it's me.

Maybe you want me

to be someone else, too.

Maybe you want me to be

Bonnie or something.

Knock it off, Jule.

No, that'd be easier

for you, wouldn't it?

If I were more of an FBI

kind of wife, like she is.

I'm not kidding, Juliana...

If I just went to church

every day and wanted to spend

my life being pregnant...

Your parents would

probably love that.

Enough.

Then you wouldn't have

to worry anymore

if I was Catholic enough

or American enough.

Shut up, goddamn it!

(DISHES CLATTERING)

(DOOR SLAMS)

Juliana?

Vanna, what's going on here?

Well, i'm just trying to..

What is wrong with you?

I'm just fighting with Eric about going to the church.

You just probably learned it something?

I don't know.

Just for Addie to take care of.

Maybe, i just wanna do something about it.

Sure, why not?

Let's go have a talk, right?

Eric.

Hey, Dad.

How long

you been out here?

I don't know.

About an hour or two.

It's freezing.

Why didn't you

let yourself in?

You ever quit

anything, Dad?

Did I ever

quit anything?

Yeah.

I think I gave up

a paper route once.

Got tired of waking up

so early.

What did

your father say?

Nothing.

He just shrugged.

He could kill you

with those shrugs.

(CHUCKLING)

I've been

thinking about him

a lot this morning.

I don't know why.

Well, that's a lot

to put on yourself, son.

I mean, he was just a kid

doing his duty.

Like you.

"Get on the boat,

do your job,

get back home again."

Huh?

That's what he said to me

the first time I shipped out.

He knew I was scared,

so he just kept it simple.

Maybe I should have

gone to Annapolis.

It always seemed to me

that your joining the Bureau

was an apology

for not going

to Annapolis,

which you never

had to do.

It's what you wanted.

No.

I wanted you

to serve your country.

Isn't that

what you're doing?

Yeah.

So you can't quit,

can you?

(SIGHS)

Get on the boat,

do your job,

get back home again.

Can you do that?

VANNA:

Peekaboo!

Got you, Addie!

Oh!

Welcome back,

Eric.

How's the morning with John?

So good.

Let's sit down together.

VANNA:

Eric, it's the family photo album.

We really wanna see it.

Do you wanna tell me the story

when Addie was born?

Sure, Vanna.

Okay.

Well, I thought it would

be a good idea

to record you mom giving birth.

The doctor sat in the chair

with medical tools aside.

I was saying to you,

"Push harder, push harder,"

and she gave me a look,

i was like...

"You're doing great".

You know that look

Mommy gives, like...

"You're in big trouble."

It's the like the little angel

coming to heaven.

And then I came out?

Then you came out, yep.

And then they spanked me?

Well, they spank all little babies

'cause they're trying to get them to cry.

But she didn't?

She wasn't crying.

So they spanked you again.

And they spanked her again.

Then they tried again.

But I wasn't breathing.

That's right.

Then more doctors came rushing in,

and they brought in more machines and...

The nurse said, "You might want

to turn that video camera off."

And then your Dad

looked at me and said,

"You need to talk to her.

You need to tell her to breathe

because she knows your voice."

"Loud."

"Say it to her."

So I started yelling

And then I did?

Yes, Vanna.

And then you did it.

Then she was crying.

Here, Vanna.

I'll hold your hand.

So, why do you have a

miracle worker?

Nobody else's got a baby lover.

Maybe you do?

That's the way understand?

ERIC:

You have tears in your eyes!

VANNA:

I know, Eric.

I'm gonna wipe it off.

You're doing a good girl.

Thanks, Eric.

I'll be back soon.

VANNA:

See you later then.

(DOOR OPENING)

His appointment's

in 5 minutes.

Media room, 1st floor.

You'll get a page

when he's in-pocket.

Obviously, if he takes

his Palm Pilot with him,

you call me, we shut it down.

It might not be

the best day

to do this, sir.

He's due at the DIA

at 2:
00.

I'm driving him.

Looks like you're in

for a full day.

(INAUDIBLE ARGUING)

Addie, stop chewing on your fingers!

You are 1 year old and you're not a baby

any more, understand?

I'm trying to read the story.

Listen, i didn't tell you what is going

to happen here?

Vanna is trusting you on it.

You're so amazing there!

You're so amazing?

Yeah.

I mean it's gonna be

trusting me here.

I think you are so amazing.

You are a loveable way in history!

You're not in history!

But, you need to tell me...

(CLOSES NURSERY BOOK)

Okay, that's it!

... and i'm telling you a secret where it is!

Hey, Juliana!

Oh, hi, you're most to me out here!

I became best friends when you are 12!

Yes.

I think so it's worthing it!

So i just read the story with Addie before

she's going to bed!

Really? Yeah!

And this is Bonnie.

Hi. Nice to meet you!

I am glad to be here.

Vanna, i bought you something!

See you at the invitation.

Boss, I just realized

I totally screwed

something up.

Don't you knock?

I'm sorry. The photographer

for your 25-year portrait,

he's here. Today.

I had it in my book

for next week,

but it's today.

They called me on my cell.

Your appointment's

in five minutes.

Then you'll just have to

reschedule, won't you?

We shouldn't.

He's only here once a month.

I'm so sorry.

I'm supposed to drop

everything I'm doing

and run down there?

In this?

That's how you

dress every day.

No. There's a spot

on my tie.

Let me look.

Lord!

Sorry.

You klutz!

Look at that.

It's everywhere.

Boss, please.

Just get down there.

You don't want to

miss your picture.

I'll have all this cleaned up

by the time you get back.

I've got the DIA at 2:00.

I'll get you there.

No problem.

Are you finding

this job stressful, Eric?

Is this all

too much for you?

Sometimes.

Then pray more.

Yes, sir.

(CAMERA CLICKING)

Mr. Hanssen.

Nice to meet you.

I'm John.

We've got a spot for you

right over here.

(PAGER BEEPING)

Twenty-five years,

huh?

That's quite a

prideful thing.

This we don't need.

You know something?

There's a little too much

bounce on your nose.

We don't want that.

Would you be opposed

to just the slightest

touch of base?

PHOTOGRAPHER:
Very nice.

Sit up a bit straighter.

Good. A little bit of a smile.

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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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