FBI veteran and rookie, connecting, suspecting

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, February, 2007 | by Carrie Rickey

For writer/director Billy Ray, truth is both stranger, and stronger, than fiction.

Breach , a riveting true-life thriller about the young FBI specialist who got the goods on the veteran agent selling secrets to Moscow, keeps you on the edge of your seat and bites your nails for you, too.

In one way, Breach is a reversal of Ray's Shattered Glass . That one was the real-life story of a charming young reporter who invents stories until his editor ferrets out the truth. This time, the young man (Ryan Phillippe as 27-year-old FBI specialist Eric O'Neill) is the ferret exposing his mentor (Chris Cooper as FBI agent Robert Hanssen) as the rat.

What's the same, though, is the youth's reflexive longing to relate to his elder as a mentor and the man's desire to...

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