Breach

2007 • 1h 50m •

Drama Thriller Crime History

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★ 6.6/10

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Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned senior agent with 25 years in the FBI. However, he soon learns the reason for his promotion is to gain Hanssen's trust and find proof that he is a traitor to the country. Determined to draw the suspected double-agent out of deep cover, O'Neill finds himself in a lethal game of spy vs. spy, where nothing is as it seems.

"How one man betrayed the security of a nation."

Top Billed Cast

Chris Cooper

Robert Hanssen

Ryan Phillippe

Eric O'Neill

Laura Linney

Kate Burroughs

Caroline Dhavernas

Juliana O'Neill

Gary Cole

Rich Garces

Dennis Haysbert

Dean Plesac

Kathleen Quinlan

Bonnie Hanssen

Bruce Davison

John O'Neill

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2025-01-19

Though never really very versatile, Ryan Philippe delivers quite well in this fact-based drama about one of the most famous cases of espionage to ever happen in the USA. O'Neill is a tech specialist with aspirations to be an agent who is selected by Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney) for a very unique task. He is to work with the long established Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper) on devising new ways to keep their systems safe from hackers. What we, and they, know is that Hanssen is suspected of being a mole, and a pretty darned substantial one at that. It's going to fall to O'Neill to try and find a w...