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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Universal Catalog: DVD Release date: 2007-06-12 Media: DVD released in theatres: 2007-02-16 Running time in minutes: 111 DVD aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 2007-02-16 Ean: 0025193227621 Upc: 025193227621  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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Written on May 3, 2008 Summary: well done Despite the well known facts of this case, the actors and director make it worth your time. Cooper brings out the freak in the bad guy. Was he really this weird? One would think he would be more docile and unassuming to carry off this treason.  Written on March 10, 2008 Summary: Cat and Mouse Games They wanted to make Chris Cooper severely evil and twisted, so they made him play the whole role in smudgy pink and blue makeup, and as the movie progresses and he gets caught up in his own lies more and more, the makeup gets even more garish. At the end he looks like Marlene Dietrich in JUST A GIGOLO. They also had him implicated in a bizarre subplot with him and his wife as swingers; Caroline Dhavernas stumbles onto a videotape of the two of them having sex, and she divines instantly that Bonnie didn't know she was being taped. How is she so sure? I wasn't, especially when the wife is being played by the one and only Kathleen Quinlan, practically a neon sign for amorality in the US cinema of the 80s and 90s. (It's always great to see her back. I always think Tuesday Weld gets all the reclame that properly belongs to La Quinlan.) Anyhow with his coating of mascara and lipstick Chris Cooper's playing it as if he were the wolf disguised as Grandma in Little Red Riding Hood, so you don't need any real acting, thank God, from Ryan Phillipe, who's always good, but always wears the same bemused expression as though he had some sand in his sandals. Like everyone else, I didn't expect much going in to see this film, and was astounded when it turned out to be one of the best spy thrillers I've ever seen. I did think it was overkill however to have President David Palmer playing one of the FBI agents trying to entrap Chris Cooper! Why not just hire George Bush to play the part? Written on February 25, 2008 Summary: A stunning depiction of a tortured, evil man "Breach" is the most unpleasant and morbidly fascinating tale of Robert Phillip Hansenn, one of the worst traitors in American history: actually, the movie downplays just how treacherous he was in terms of how many deaths he is responsible for, not to mention the extremely high security nature of the secrets he was selling. Chris Cooper makes the movie as the monstrously hypocritical and somehow entranching Hansenn: face pale and drawn, ultra-conservative and outwardly a devout Catholic, bitter and cruel with unexpected moments trust and warmth, he seems the personification of what can happen what an individual identifies too much with his nation--and all the while he is committing high treason and engaging in sexual deviance by distributing tapes of him and his wife copulating. Ryan Phillipe turns in a golly gee All American Boy performance as the extraordinary Eric O' Neill, the agent who put Hansenn exactly where he belongs: in a solitary cell 23 hours a day. Everything somehow falls to the sidelines of Cooper's performance, however: the perverse enigma of his character is unforgettable. He plays a broken, ruined man in need of validation, friendship, or something outside the narrow locus of his "clean cut" life. At one point he asks O' Neill, finding himself in ever more compromised positions trying to get the drop on his target, whether this job is too much for him. He says "Yes, sir". Hansenn's response is: "Pray more". This is more of a character study than anything else, though at times the stunning incompetence of the FBI might disturb the viewer more than information about Hansenn's activities; he wasn't caught until he was 56 years old, and if they hadn't sicked O'Neill on him, he probably would have walked. Cooper manages to evoke some pity for Hansenn with his masterfully macabre and conflicted performance: the real Hansenn doesn't deserve much. The film references his "harassing female subordinates": he did more than that, on one occasion actually dragging another agent across the floor for leaving one of his meetings early. When the FBI showed up at the drop point, Hansenn's response was not "Pray for me" or anything like that, but "What took you so long?" Nonetheless, this is a compulsively watchable, nail biting horrorshow and an interesting, if horrifying, story to boot. Written on February 22, 2008 Summary: Not what I expected... I saw the previews for this film at the beginning of a different one, and immediatly wanted to see it although I really didn't know what it was about: I don't even remember realizing that it was based on a true story. I personally don't think that this film is the typical 'spy' film; it's certainly loads different than any James Bond movie, and a far cry from any of the Bourne movies either. This isn't a bad thing: it's just a different thing. Some of the reviewers claimed that the film is to slow or boring, but I think that those reviewers have completely missed the point of the film - and the man that the film is about. After I watched the film I did a little of my own research on Robert Hanssen and found that even where the film might not have followed his story exactly (Hanssen never actually came over to the O'Neill's house, O'Neill's not the one who actually downloaded information from Hanssen's PDA, et. al.) it still does an excellent job of just stretching the events enough to make them a little more exciting without actually creating something altogether different (Hanssen and O'Neill had apparently planned to go for dinner, but it would have been after Hanssen was arrested, and Hanssen DID ask O'Neill if he'd gone through his bag after the information had been downloaded by people that O'Neill had brought the PDA to - and had nearly not gotten it back in the bag on time). I also like how key phrases were inserted, even though we might not have noticed. Early on in the film Hanssen tells O'Neill something like "[he'll piss purple if Hanssen ever catches [O'Neill] in his office again]." In real life, it was hearing this phrase (that Hanssen often said) on a tape that the FBI got from an ex-KGB member that helped them realize that the mole they were looking for was actually Hanssen, not a different individual who they had suspected. The crimes that Hanssen committed were not full of action and drama. As the film shows, Hanssen would simply put information in Hefty plastic bags and leave them at drop points for the Russians to pick up. He wasn't intested in a lot of money because he knew that if he'd spend big hunks of money all of a sudden, people would be onto him. To put too much action and drama into this film would be to misunderstand the story. Hanssen did do things that could be deemed slightly socially defective, like run people into walls, copiers, etc., when he'd walk with someone, as is depicted in the film. All the little isms about who Hanssen was/is are what make the film: not action and drama. I think that Chris Cooper portrays Hanssen brilliantly, and Phillippe does an excellent job with O'Neill. Overall an excellent film, I'm looking forward to watching it again! Written on February 10, 2008 Summary: Psychological Thriller To my mind, this is the best movie of 2007. I prefer movies such as these that are under the radar movies and tweak the cranium. It's been awhile since I read the outstanding book, but I think some of the characterization may have been a little overplayed. It was not overplayed by the acting of Chris Cooper, but the lines he was given were a little cliche for my tastes. The lines were a little too easy in parts. A little too quick. I would've preferred more characterization and less over the top lines. I understand the constraints of time and all that, but the rest of the movie was drawn out and careful. The characterization of Hanson was given less effort than I would've liked, and the kid's character was given more. I was less interested in the kid's character. Having said all that, the movie does an excellent job of portraying a story some of us knew well before we entered the theater. Another complaint I have is when Robert Hanson is caught, he delivers an excellent line that wrapped up the story so well: "What took you so long?" I believe the line the screenwriters chose was: "Now, maybe, you'll listen to me." It's a decent line, but the real line was so much better. I'm not sure why the screenwriters didn't use it. The kid in the movie is good, but Cooper steals the show with his subtlety. Chris Cooper is excellent. This movie, along with his scenes in Adaptation, are leading me to believe he may be one of the better character actors in movies today. Overall, it's an excellent movie, and it's my pick for movie of the year. |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2007-06-12 | 2007-06-26 | 2008-01-08 | 2007-04-03 | 2007-06-12 | 2007-07-31 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 2007-02-16 | 2007-03-23 | 2007 | 2006-12-22 | 2007-02-16 | 2007 |
| Running time in minutes | 111 | 125 | 162 | 168 | 110 | 121 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.85:1 | 2.35:1 | 2.35:1 | 2.40:1 | 2.40:1 | 2.35:1 |
| Audience Rating | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | R (Restricted) | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | R (Restricted) |
| Format | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | NTSC, Widescreen | AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Extra tracks, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 99 | 1 |
| Ean | 0025193227621 | 0097363303046 | 0097361313146 | 0025192867125 | 0043396163119 | 0025193321824 |
| Upc | 025193227621 | 097363303046 | 097361313146 | 025192867125 | 043396163119 | 025193321824 |
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