03/15/2007: "RECENT MOVIE - BREACH"
I saw this one a few weeks ago and liked it a lot. Probably a lot more than other people and I have my specific reasons -
1) I'm partial to films about/take place in DC only because I lived there for 3 years. Remember that HBO show "K Street" I watched 5 episodes of it until it got too weird and my HBO got cut off.
2) I actually worked for Eric O'Neill's father, John O'Neill, Jr (Eric O'Neill is the main character in the film played by Ryan Phillipe). Bruce Davison (Senator Kelly from the X-Men films and Kirsten Dunst's dad in Crazy/Beautiful) plays John O'Neill, Jr. for only one scene in the movie.
I was a nuclear energy paralegal (truth, I swear) for a top law firm in DC and John was the partner I worked under. Really nice guy, though he looks nothing like Bruce Davison. I can't think of a closer match at the moment, maybe an older Jack Black with a beard. Anyway, Eric O'Neill actually came into the office once with his wife and I only got a glimpse of what I could see above my cubicle at the time. But I will say that Eric O'Neill's wife is as attractive as the girl that plays her in the movie, tho in real life she's a blonde.
We once had a lunch meeting where John brought in and showed us the Dateline Special that they did on Eric O'Neill when the whole Hansen thing was well over with and they were starting work on the movie. At the end of the meeting, John told us what Eric's last words were to Robert Hansen -
"Catch you later."
The film changed this last exchange of words into something else that was more on the theme of the film and this was the only sticking point for me. Regardless, I recommend you "catch" it on DVD.
Anogther Fun Fact- One Robert Hansen's sons worked for a rival firm of Eric's, which kinda saddened me when I thought about it.